Our NanoΣky team is organising our 1-day Brain-Inspired Computing Workshop on the 27th of February 2025 in Manchester. You can find more details in the workshop’s page here: ATOMS TO BITS: THE ALPHABET OF INTELLIGENCE V1.0. The event aims to take a holistic approach and is dedicated to connecting the worlds of emerging materials research, memristive device engineering, and the development of hybrid memristive-CMOS neuromorphic computing systems. By focusing on technological applications, we aim to spark conversations and collaborations that can help shape the next generation of intelligent computing.

REGISTRATION

• Registration is free, however, securing your place requires prior registration.
• You can register for a place here.
• Please note that only a few places are left, so we strongly encourage early registration to ensure your participation.

The IEEE International Magnetics conference 2024 in Rio just finished! Our skyrmionics team member Will Griggs participated in the 2024 Intermag conference, which this year took place in stunning Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 5^th – 10^th of May. Situated mere metres from the white sands of Praia da Barra da Tijuca, the conference venue offered the unique advantage of being able to go from morning seminars to the shore and back again in time for the afternoon sessions. Here (the conference, not the beach!), we showcased our work on i) skyrmionic artificial synapses and ii) skyrmions in nanodot arrays, and enjoyed many fruitful discussions on both. Attendees were treated to a diverse variety of talks on spintronics, skyrmions, unconventional computing and beyond, including plenary session from Nobel laureate Albert Fert. It was particularly exciting to see proliferating interest and significant progress that has been made towards realizable neuromorphic computing based on magnetic devices. 

After a joint Intermag-MMM conference in New Orleans next year, The University of Manchester will take the reigns for Intermag in 2026, joining a long list of spectacular venues which have hosted this calendar highlight. Between now and then, the spintronics and neuromorphic computing communities are poised to make tremendous progress. 

Looking forward to participating and contributing an invited talk on our recent research on magnetic skyrmions and nanocomputing at the “Current Research in Magnetic Skyrmions” by the UK Magnetics Society which will take place at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, on Wednesday the 8th of June 2022.

Very happy to have participated at the EPSRC International Network for Spintronics Early Career Researchers Meeting in the University of Leeds with 125 attendees from 14 countries and contribute a talk on Magnetic Skyrmions for Nanocomputing.

A video explaining our recent theoretical/computational paper on “Tunable terahertz oscillation arising from Bloch-point dynamics in chiral magnets” recently published at the Physical Review Research journal, by lead author, our PhD student Yu Li. A collaboration between the University of Manchester with the Metal Physics and Technology group at the ETH Zürich. 

Our recent theoretical/computational paper on “Tunable terahertz oscillation arising from Bloch-point dynamics in chiral magnets” has now been published at the Physical Review Research journal! Congratulations to the lead author, our PhD student Yu Li. The work arose from a collaboration between the University of Manchester with the Metal Physics and Technology group at the ETH Zürich. This work reveals that the formation/annihilation processes of skyrmions will give rise to an emergent electric field with a frequency in the THz regime. The electric signal is due to the ultra-fast Bloch-point propagation, and both the amplitude and frequency can be tuned by the manipulation of Bloch-point dynamics. Our study provides a concept of directly exploiting topological singularities that may be relevant for THz skyrmion-based electronic devices.

Congratulations to our PhD student, Yu Li, for winning the Best Poster award at the ‘Skyrmions in Magnetic Materials‘ seminar in Bad Honnef, Germany. He presented a poster on our recent work on ‘Tuneable Bloch-point dynamics during switching of skyrmions and antiskyrmions in chiral magnets‘, which is also available on the arXiv (link).

Really excited to participate in the British-German WE-Heraeus-Seminar on ‘Skyrmions in Magnetic Materials’ at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (1st – 5th Dec., 2019). We participated with two of our PhD students, Yu Li and Runze Chen, who presented posters relevant to Bloch point dynamics, and neuromorphic computing, respectively.