Chiral and frustrated high-temperature multiferroics for spin-based information technologies

PhD position offered at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) within the framework of the SPIN4DATA project, jointly developed by the CMEOS and NN ICMAB groups. SPIN4DATA encompasses concepts and methods in the rapidly evolving area of functional materials for information technologies. It deals with the synthesis and fabrication of different ferrite families as nanostructures or in bulk form (including crystals). We focus on exceptional new ferrite families with very strong magnetic coupling (to overcome the problem of too low transition temperatures) and different types of frustrated configurations that lead to unique properties at ambient temperature. Among them, exotic magnetic structures such as magnetic spirals, chiral and non-collinear magnetic orders, which can generate magnetoelectricity, improper ferroelectricity induced by spin ordering, multiferroicity, or high magnetic anisotropy, are promising for next-generation multifunctional electronic devices. SPIN4DATA: “Spin-driven phenomena in frustrated magnets for a sustainable data-centric society”