Spin+X PI Burkard Hillebrands receives ERC Advanced Grant for research related to Spin Engineering

With this prestigious grant that provides funding of more than 2.4 million euros Hillebrands will open up a new field of research: supermagnonics. He and his team will investigate macroscopic magnonic quantum phenomena with the aim to make data processing significantly more efficient.

The award-winning concept of supermagnonics is an advancement of magnonics – a field which was already fundamentally co-developed by Hillebrands. It is based on magnetic phenomena in crystal lattices that are caused by the spin, or intrinsic angular momentum, of electrons. Immaterial spin waves (known as magnons) serve as a medium and carrier of information. As waves are able to transmit more information than electrons and heat generation can be kept to a minimum, this creates completely new means of making data processing substantially more efficient. One day this may lead to new systems of computer technology.

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Also Spin+X PI Hans Hasse is among this year’s ERC awardees: he receives an Advanced Grant for his project proposal „Enrichment of Components at Interfaces in Fluid Separations“ (ENRICO)”.