The Spintronics and NanoMagnetism Laboratory in Lecce 

The Spintronics and NanoMagnetism Laboratory in Lecce is a joint facility involving three different institutions: the Università del Salento, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. The research is funded by EU, national, and regional projects. Research activities are multidisciplinary and span from spintronics and magnonics to quantum sciences and technologies, sensing, and material sciences. Results, achievements, and concepts are disseminated to the general public within the frame of European Researchers’ Night initiatives, including exhibits and hand-on experiments on magnetism (i.e., superconducting levitation on a Möbius band). Major equipment includes:

  • An Oxford superconducting vector magnet (6 T/1 T/1 T) with dilution refrigerator reaching temperatures down to 10 mK and equipped for DC magnetotransport, RF spectroscopy, and ferromagnetic resonance measurements.
  • A Cryogenic Ltd superconducting magnet (10.5 T, 0.3-300 K) equipped for variable-temperature magnetotransport, magnetometry,
    and ac-susceptibility measurements.
  • A Lakeshore cryogenic probe station for DC and RF (up to 20 GHz measurements in moderate field.
  • An Oxford superconducting magnet (8 T) with a custom-built optical cryostat for magneto-optical experiments

Notably, the infrastructure further includes a fully equipped clean room for nanofabrication and material growth as well as nanochemistry, photonics, and biology facilities providing an ideal location for multidisciplinary and applied research for in-house and visiting researchers before translating the experiments to the high field facilities of EMFL, when required. In particular, service can be offered for magnetotransport, RF and magneto-optical spectroscopy, characterization/optimization of novel sensors, nanomagnetism, and novel functional magnetic materials (such as multiferroics).
Researchers interested in undertaking experiments at this laboratory under the Dual Access scheme can obtain further details by contacting Giuseppe Maruccio.

Contact: giuseppe.maruccio@unisalento.it