Departmental Seminar - Advanced Atomistic Models of Magnetic Materials
| Dates: | 20 November 2024 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Computer Science |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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| Speaker: | Dr.Mara Strungaru Ruta-Strungaru |
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Magnetic materials maintained huge interests for technological applications such as magnetic recording media (initially on magnetic tapes, now on nm-sized granular media). With the increased necessity to store more and more data, it is important to constantly improve/renew the current technologies or seek for other magnetic entities (such as domain walls, skyrmions) to act as a bit of information. Novel research fields in magnetism such as spin-electronics (spintronics), opto-magnetism, magnetism in 2D, neuromorphic and reservoir computing promise to bring more advanced technologies in our daily life, and the usage of magnetic nano-particles in bio-medicine to even cure some types of cancer. The laser-induced manipulation of spins also promises to revolutionise the magnetic storage technologies by using ultrafast processes with low dissipation.
In this work we explore state-of-the art atomistic models of magnetic materials able to simulate billion atoms systems for technological applications and fundamental studies. We also explore some typical examples of 2D magnetic materials, such as CrI3 and CrCl3, our findings indicating that ultrafast laser pulses can be used to manipulate spin textures efficiently in atomically thin van der Waals layers, similarly to other conventional ferromagnets.
Speaker
Dr.Mara Strungaru Ruta-Strungaru
Role: Lecturer in Novel Concepts/Technologies in Low Energy Computing
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Dr. Mara has obtained her PhD in computational magnetism in 2021 at University of York, then moved to a postdoctoral position at University of Edinburg, working on 2D magnetism. Afterwards she returned to York as a research software engineer funded by the national supercomputer ARCHER2 via eCSE. She joined University of Manchester in July 2024 as a Lecturer in Novel Concepts/Technologies in Low Energy Computing. Besides 2D magnetism, her current research interests are in developing advanced models of magnetic materials for both fundamental studies (such as spin-lattice interactions) and technological applications (in data storage, biomedicine, machine learning etc ).
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