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Tohoku University
Tohoku University, founded in 1907, is a Japanese National University in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Since its establishment, Tohoku University has continued to offer students a world-class education, and to succeed in conducting pioneering research in various fields. Tohoku University has always been in the forefront of spintronics research, and has the capability to design, synthesis, fabricate and characterise the spintronics materials and devices, and integrate them with CMOS integrated circuits.
University of York
The Magnetic Materials Research Group at the University of York is probably Britain's largest group working in the field of advanced nano-magnetism. The group specialises in the field of spintronics, magnetic modelling and magnetisation reversal studies in complex materials. The Spintronics and Nanodevice Lab investigates novel materials, new devices and fabrication techniques for spintronics - a rapidly expanding field of microelectronics and nanoelectronics.
Technical University of Kaiserslautern
The University of Kaiserslautern was founded on 13 July 1970. Earlier it was part of the twin University Trier/Kaiserslautern. In the winter semester 1970/1971 student and scientific activities started with the matriculation of 191 new students the faculties in Mathematics, Physics and Technology. In 1972 the set-up of the faculties of Chemistry and Biology gave a boost to the extension of a scientifically specialised structure. At the same time the faculty of Technology was split into the faculties Mechanical Engineering and Electrotechnology, Architecture/Regional and Environmental Planning/Educational Sciences.
SPINTEC
SPINTEC is one of the leading spintronics research laboratories in the world, positioned at the crossroads of science and technology. It is hosted on the MINATEC campus in Grenoble, which is located in the French Alps and surrounded by an exceptional natural environment. It is also an extremely rich ecosystem formed by public research organisations (CEA, CNRS, ESRF, ILL), the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and the Graduate schools of Engineering and Management (GINP), as well as numerous high-tech companies. SPINTEC’s mission is to act as a bridge between academic research and technological applications in the field of spintronics, which is both a very rich source of new condensed-matter-magnetism physics, and recognised today as one of the major innovation routes for future microelectronics industries, sensing technology and bio-applications. The research activity of SPINTEC covers the whole spectrum from theory to demonstrators, including the development of innovative functional materials, the experimental validation of novel concepts in physics, up to the realisation of test structures. Academic research concerns spinorbitronics, spintronics in 2D materials, microwave components, antiferromagnetic spintronics, and exotic spin textures. The application-oriented topics are: magnetic random access memories, artificial intelligence, design of spin based integrated circuits, sensors, biotechnology.
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities and highly respected across the globe as a centre of teaching excellence and research innovation and discovery. With 25 Nobel Prize winners among their current and former staff and students, they have a history of world firsts, with impact ranging from splitting the atom to giving the world graphene. The university ranked 38th in the world and sixth in the UK in the 2022 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities. Their outstanding facilities and wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD courses make them one of the most popular universities with students in the UK and internationally. They're proud to have the largest alumni community of any campus-based university in the UK, with more than 500,000 graduates in more than 190 countries around the world.
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds, established in 1904, is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK. The University is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, and has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary prize, the country’s highest accolade for an academic institution, in 2009, 2011 and 2021. They have more than 39,800 students including more than 37,400 full time, 2,400 part time, 28,600 undergraduates and 11,200 postgraduates, including 14,400 international and exchange students from 137 countries. They have 9,200 staff from more than 100 different countries. They contribute £1.3b every year to the UK economy – students add close to £200m of international revenue into the City Region each year.