We learned with great sorrow that John Slonczewski passed away during the night of Thursday 30th May 2019. John was born in 1929. During most of his carrier, he has been theoretician at IBM Yorktown. He made lot of outstanding contributions to the field of magnetism and spintronics. All of us know his outstanding contributions […]

Peter Grünberg is notoriously known as Nobel Laureate in Physics 2007, together with Albert Fert for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR). This discovery had a tremendous impact on our field of research, being often spotted as the birth act of Spintronics, and basis for many applications including highly-sensitive read heads for magnetic hard disk […]

Miguel Rubio Roy joined Spintec on April 17, 2017 as a Materials Research Engineer (in the framework of CNRS NOEMI campaign). Curriculum Vitae Miguel defended his Ph.D. at the University of Barcelona, devoted to surface properties of amorphous carbon layers, development and implementation of a thin film sputtering reactor. He then gained his postdoctoral experience […]

Personnalités, parcours singuliers… Visages de sciences réunit des témoignages de scientifiques de la DRF qui confient en toute simplicité leur fierté professionnelle et leur regard sur les mystères de la recherche fondamentale. Consultez le livre numérique édité en janvier 2017 (Copyright CEA / DRF) : Flipbook Visage de Sciences