The Transregional Collaborative Research Center “Spin+X – spin in its collective environment” was first approved in 2016. It is currently in its second funding period and the third funding period will start in January 2024.
A research team of physicists and chemists from RPTU Kaiserlautern and JGU Mainz is working on fundamental spin phenomena. As in the first eight years, the work will focus on spin research and its potential for information and communiction technology. In addition to ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, a future focus will be on altermagnet based systems - new types of magnets that combine the best properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Findings from spin research are already being incorporated into the development of new technologies such as magnetic memory chips, logic and sensors.