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Work led by Hitachi in collaboration with UCL and the Robinson Lab has led to the development of a new superconducting detector with a charge sensitivity of 1.3 µe/√Hz. Find out more here and see Physical Review Applied 10, 014018 (2018).

Superconductor Week, August 31, 2018 Vol. 32, No. 7

We have shown that certain superconductors – materials that carry electrical current with zero resistance at very low temperatures – can also carry currents of ‘spin’. The successful combination of superconductivity and spin could lead to a revolution in high-performance computing, by dramatically reducing energy consumption. Published on the Unive…

Group's work on superconducting graphene on an oxide high temperature superconductor noted in the Financial TimesClick for FT article.

Focused article - Electron Manifesto - on group's work on superconducting spintronics in Research Horizons, the University of Cambridge’s research magazine. Find out more.

Electron ‘spin’ could hold the key to managing the world’s growing data demands without consuming huge amounts of energy. Now, researchers have shown that energy-efficient superconductors can power devices designed to achieve this. What once seemed an impossible marriage of superconductivity and spin may be about to transform high performance compu…

Awarded 5-year EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core Grant on "International network to explore novel superconductivity at advanced oxide superconductor/magnet interfaces and in nanodevices"Find out more

Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor.For more information, click here.

de volkskrant discusses group's work on p-wave triggered superconductivity in single layer grapheneFor more information, click here.

"The Oxford Handbook of Small Superconductors", Oxford University Press, is published (19 January)"The Oxford Handbook of Small Superconductors", (AV Narlikar), Oxford University Press (19 January 2017)

Physics World highlights group's work on p-wave superconductivity in grapheneFor more information, click here.

Datacenter Dynamics, 18 April 2016. University team’s focus on superconducting spintronics promises faster computers with ultra-low energy requirementsCambridge University is leading a £2.7 million project to establish the UK as an international leader in the development of “superconducting spintronics”. The new architecture could increase the ener…

A breakthrough for the field of Spintronics, a new type of technology which it is widely believed could be the basis of a future revolution in computing, has been announced by scientists in Cambridge.Cambridge University News, 15 January 2014Superconductors – materials which, when cooled below a certain temperature, can carry a current without losi…

They have found a way to make a superconducting current spin in order to potentially revolutionize computing.OZY.Com, 20 January 2014“We’ve discovered something that’s fundamentally very exciting and transformative,” says Robinson. “That’s a huge adventure and a privilege from a scientist’s point of view.”In 2010, Robinson and his colleagues valida…

Strong spending and recruitment keep countries in this region near the top of the world's output in the Index, and scientists from universities collaborate more with their neighbours. Nature 522, S10-S12 (2015)One 2014 article in the Index came from Cambridge materials scientist, Jason Robinson, and colleagues. This article in Nature Communication…