Conference details

New materials for magnetoelectronics 2006

Topic

The need to understand the living matter together with its enormous complexity as well as the importance of biological systems has made the bio-medical physics one of the fastest growing areas of research. Progress in this area has advanced tremendously through the work of physicists and chemists who apply techniques from the condensed matter to study the phenomena that control the critically important biological and biochemical processes, and material scientist who are at the forefront of making novel nanostructured materials exhibiting unusual properties which may lead to new applications. The session on biomagnetism and medical physics has an interdisciplinary character and is devoted to subjects that comprise a broad range of research areas at the interface of physics, chemistry, material science, biology, and medicine.

Over the last few years, condensed matter physicists have become fascinated by the phenomenon of quantum criticality discovered in the correlated electron systems. The critical behaviour appears in the vicinity of metal-insulator transition of the Mott-Hubbard type or close to a quantum critical point, where a magnetic phase formed by correlated itinerant fermions disappears. In f-electron compounds, strong electronic correlations lead to a variety of interesting ground states. Recently, there has been growing interest in heavy fermion compounds which exhibit a large C/T coefficient in the specific heat, that display non-Fermi liquid behaviour in which the low-temperature dependences of the susceptibility, specific heat or electrical resistivity are characterized by logarithmic or power-law dependencies. The number of the so-called strongly correlated compounds and alloys containing Ce or U, which display the critical quantum behaviour systematically increases. There are also some possibilities of their applications in spintronics. These current problems of physics will be presented and discussed at the session.

Spin polarized transport through magnetic nanostructures has recently attracted much attention both from the fundamental and application points of view. This interest stems form the fact that these systems are considered to become the underlying devices in spintronics and information storage technologies. Furthermore, nanostructures such as for example quantum dots and molecular structures, present ideal model systems to study the interplay of charge and spin degrees of freedom at the nanoscale. The aim of this session is to present the very recent results and findings concerning the spin-dependent transport properties of single and double quantum dots, as well as novel spin effects in molecular heterostructures. In particular, special attention will be drawn to the problem of transport through quantum dots and single molecules in the strong coupling limit, where the Kondo effect emerges.

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are widely accepted to have a significant impact on 21st century world. These fields have already influenced the progress in many aspects of technology, engineering, materials and electronic devices. The session is devoted to recent understanding of nanotechnology and to theoretical and experimental efforts towards developing materials and structures for applications in magnetoelectronics. Particular l emphasis will be put on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) methods in nanoscale investigation of molecules and nanoparticles. The applications of nanoscale physics in Polish industry will be also presented and discussed.

Language

The language of the conference will be Polish.

Scope

• Biomagnetics and medical physics
• Strongly correlated electrons in spintronics
• New ides in magnetoelectronics
• Modern electronics and nanotechnology

Organizer

Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Organizing committee

• - coordination
• - publication
• - publication
• - secretary
• - finance
• - transportation

Dates

The conferece begins at 3 May 2006 and ends at 6 May 2006.

Venue

Mathematical Research and Conference Center
Będlewo, ul. Parkowa 1, 62-060 Stęszew, Poland

• locatization: map
• www: www.impan.gov.pl/Bedlewo/
• e-mail: bedlewo@impan.gov.pl
• phone: (+48 61)8135-187

Sponsors

The conference is sponsored by:

• Ministry of Education and Science

Digests/Abstracts

Deadlines

Other

Authors of manuscripts.

Publication rules

Presention

• Oral presentation
  Overhead projector and digital projector with PC computer(CD/DVD) will be provided to perform the talks.
• Poster presentation
  For poster presentation stands 1m high and 1.2m wide will be available.