FoNE is a EUROCORES programme focusing on fundamental nanoscale phenomena affecting electron transport. These include: 

(1) Quantum transport, noise and correlations in quantum dots wires and other novel structures;(2) Molecular-scale electronicsand atomic contacts;(3) Nanoscale spin dependent transport and control;(4) Proximity effects and hybrid nanostructures.

The research to be carried out underpins many areas of nanoelectronics and will help to create the necessary knowledge for a society in which microelectronics is gradually replaced by nanoelectronics.

Dependence of Domain-Wall Depinning Threshold Current on Pinning Profile (28 April 2009)

Researchers at the University of Leeds UK and at IBM from the FoNE SPINCURRENT CRP have investigated the threshold current density required for depinning a domain wall from constrictions in NiFe nanowires.

An highlight of this research has appeared on ScienceDaily (25 April 2009). 

The results of this research have been published in S. Lepadatu, A. Vanhaverbeke, D. Atkinson, R. Allenspach, C. H. Marrows, PRL, 102, 127203, 2009

Study of origin and control of ferromagnetism in magnetically doped semiconductor: (Ga,Fe)N(20 February 2009)

Cooperation between groups of the Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria) and Institute of Physics, PAS, (Warsaw, Poland) belonging to the SPINTRA project have led to the discovery that the  aggregation of Fe ions in (Ga,Fe)N and consequently the magnetic response of the material are affected by the growth rate and doping with shallow impurities.

 The results of this research have been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 135502 (2008) and Phys.Rev. lett. 100, 037204 (2008).

Fundamental studies of carbon-based nanostructures for spintronics at Poznań (20 February 2009)

Researchers from Poznan within the SPINTRA project have studied spin-polarized transport through carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Read more here about these results in  Phys. Rev. B 78, 035422 (2008)]

Spintronic Nano-devices from Warsaw.

Researchers at the Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences at Warsaw have fabricated a series of 1D hybrid nanostructures containing MBE-grown modulation-doped PbTe quantum wells embedded by Pb$_{0.92}$Eu$_{0.08}$Te:Bi barriers and indium as a superconductor injecto

Spintronics is on the agenda at Leeds. Dr. Chris Marrows talks about recent results achieved in SPINCURRENT consortium.

Can Nuclear Qubits Point the Way? Researchers at Oxford tell us about their results within the IMPRESS Project.

In search of the Holy Gra...phene! Researchers meet at Windsor to discuss the properties of this still 'unknown' material.

• FoNE School and Conference on Spintronics and Quantum Information Technology (20 February 2009)

Dates: 07-11 July 2009

Location: Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Deadline for abstract submission: 23 March 2009

Further information can be found here

• FoNE Final Conference (20 February 2009)

Dates: 9-13 September 2009

Location: Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain

For further information and registration click here (New web link - 2 April 2009)

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