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We are happy to welcome Maurus as a new member of the Bossini group. As part of his bachelor thesis, he will work on the development of different balanced photodetectors to find the optimal configuration for pump-probe experiments on antiferromagnetic materials. The goal is to build a detector that allows the simultaneous measurement of rotational and transmittance changes. This will improve the comparability of rotation and transmission data with the same parameters.

We are pleased to welcome Fabienne as a new member of the Bossini group. As part of her bachelor thesis, she will assist us in the development of the magneto-optical laser-based microscope that will allow us to measure the propagation of magnons with femtosecond time resolution and (sub)-300 nm spatial resolution.

Interfaces comprising antiferromagnets and heavy metals are spintronic systems massively investigated in the last few years. Despite the huge amount of work the basic understanding of spin transport phenomena across these interfaces is still in its infancy. In this paper we demonstrate that the magnon density of states of the antiferromagnet plays a key role in the transport through the interfaces. This conclusion was achieved via a quantitative comparison of two different systems, in which…

The possibility to employ semiconductors in spintronics has long fascinated scientists and engineers, as it would allow to merge the beneficial electronics transport properties of semiconductors with spin manipulations concept. In two papers published back-to-back ([1], [2]) we consider this scenario for MnTe, an antiferromagnetic semiconductor ordered above room temperature. The coupling between spins, lattice and charge dynamics is discussed both theoretically and experimentally. We…

Prof. Bonetti's group (Stockholm University) and we have demonstrated that femtosecond laser pulses can be used to increase the frequency of the magnetic resonance in 10 nanometer thick materials via the magnetoelastic coupling.

The continuously growing demand of data storage and processing in the cloud can be sustained with the presently available technology only for a limited time-window (approximately 10 years). The necessary novel concept must reduce the energy consumption while simultaneously increase the operational speed of the data storage, transfer and processing. Antiferromagnets are the most promising materials for the next-generation information technology devices, since in combination with femtosecond laser…

We have developed a model for the relationship between domain walls and spin dynamics in magnetoelastic antiferromagnets. Linear and nonlinear regimes of spin dynamics are described within the framework of our model. We have published this work on invitation in the "Emerging Leaders" special issue of Journal of Physics D.

As part of the collaboration with Dr. Ciccarelli (Cambridge), we have demonstrated the spin Seebeck effect in a ferrimagnet on the picosecond time scale

We are happy to welcome Leon as new group member. As part of his three-month bachelor's thesis, he will develop and characterize a scanning module for the magneto-optical microscope.