Ignasi Fina al Centre Cívic Sagrada Família
Ignasi Fina realitza una presentació durant la presentació del projecte Matheroes al públic del Centre Cívic Sagrada Família
Author: Gervasi Herranz
Ignasi Fina gives two lectures at UCE Prada
Ignasi Fina gave two lectures about “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” and “Information and communication technologies” at Universitat Catalana d’Estiud on August 22-23th.
See the event link: http://uce.cat/responsive/ctecnologia_Prada_2018.html
Guillermo Prieto gets a 10 with honors for his work on ferroelectrics
Guillermo Prieto, who did his bachelor thesis with Ignasi Fina working on ferroelectrics, got the maximum mark (10) with honors for his work “Electroresistance in non-tunnelling ferroelectric junctions”. The bachelor work was defended at Universitat de Barcelona. 
Former Master student on Photovoltaic ferroelectric to PhD
Our former Master student on Photovoltaic ferroelectric ; Sergio Gonzalez Casals, has accepted an offer to initiate his PhD on related topics at INL (
) in France
Congratulations!
New projected granted to Ignasi Fina
“NANOingeniería de ÓXIdos para el mayor aprovechamiento de la energía SOLar usando rutas no convencionales (NANOXISOL)” (Oxides nanoengineering for improvement of photovoltaic efficiency using non-conventional routes) proposed by Ignasi Fina has been awarded by Comfuturo program in its second edition.
Our colleague Ignasi Fina got the prestigious Ramon y Cajal 5 years contract
Our colleague Ignasi Fina got the prestigious Ramon y Cajal 5 years contract. Congratulations !
MIT-Spain “La Caixa” grant for MULFOX
MULFOX group has been awarded with a MIT-Spain “La Caixa” Foundation Seed Fund. In a press release that took place on 18th April at Palau Macaya (Barcelona), the PI of the project (Ignasi Fina) was interviewed by local radio, and he commented on the new investigations on the use of semiconducting ferroelectrics for photoelectric applications that the funded project proposes. We hope fruitful collaboration with MIT.
Read the news appeared in the media:
- Seleccionats 12 projectes del programa MIT-Spain ”la Caixa” Foundation Seed Fund que potencien la recerca de frontera (Obra Social “la Caixa”, 18/04/2018)
- El MIT i La Caixa aposten per la recerca a banda i banda de l’Atlàntic (Diari ARA, 18/04/2018)
- El MIT y la Caixa buscan fomentar la colaboración con la investigación de excelencia española (Big Vang, La Vanguardia, 18/04/2018)
- Intercambio de cerebros para alentar sinergias en investigación (El País, 18/04/2018)
- Set projectes catalans col·laboraran amb el MIT en recerca puntera (Catalunya Migdia, 18/04/2018)
New students in our group
Great physicists: Sergio Gonzalez and Sara Ramió, have just enrolled our group. They will work on ferroelectric materials with Ignasi Fina.
All the best for them!
Halyna Volkova
PhD student Halyna Volkova is doing her PhD thesis in Université Paris-Saclay under the supervision of B. Dkhil and I.C. Infante. She will stay in our group working on growth and photovoltaic characterization of ferroelectric materials during 2 months (2018, January – March).
We hope you the best.
New collaborative project with Massachusetts Institute of Technology funded by “la Caixa”
We are happy to announce that this year I. Fina from MULFOX and R. Jaramillo from Massachusetts Institute of Technology will start a new collaborative project funded by “la Caixa” focus on the investigation of new materials for photovoltaic applications.
Ignasi Fina is going to deliver invited talk at the 2017 Epitaxy meeting in Barcelona
Ignasi Fina will give an invited talk on Photoelectric effects in ferroelectric thin films (13th September of 2017) on the EMN MEETING ON EPITAXY in Barcelona.
Fanmao Liu Cum-Laude
Fanmao Liu merited the Cum-Laude for his PhD defense on “Photoresponse of Ferroelectric BaTiO3 thins films”.
Congratulations, Fanmao!
Fanmao Liu starts his professional carrier
Fanmao Liu, our fresh PhD, starts his professional carrier at SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY in Guangzhou (China). Good luck and remember ICMAB ! “
Fanmao Liu successfully defended his thesis
Today, Fanmao Liu has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Photoresponse of ferroelectric BaTiO3 thin films” supervised by Prof. Fontcuberta and Dr. Fina. Congratulations for him and thanks to the members of the jury: Prof. Brahim Dkhil, Dr. Mariano Campoy, and Dr. Ingrid Cañero.
Finished the first 15 days of measurements of the dielectric lab as a NFFA facility
During these last 15 days our Dielectric Lab has been used by an external used in the framework of the NFFA European network. We are happy that a equipment that has been set by our group can be now used by Scientist and Industrial Researchers from all around Europe.
Strain-Controlled Responsiveness of Slave Half-Doped Manganite La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 Layers Inserted in BaTiO3 Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions.
Greta Radaelli, Diego Gutiérrez, Mengdi Qian, Ignasi Fina, Florencio Sánchez, Lorenzo Baldrati, Jakoba Heidler, Cinthia Piamonteze, Riccardo Bertacco, and Josep Fontcuberta.
Adv. Electron. Mater. 2016, 2, 1600368.
A new memory
In a radio interview (Pa Ciència la Nostra – Radio Sants) Ignasi Fina talks about the realisation of a memory device able to be connected to any PC via standard USB connection based on an antiferromagnetic material. The realisation of this proof of concept device might be an important step on for antiferromagnetic spintronics.
Link to the interview (catalan):
Demostration:
https://plus.google.com/+IgnasiFinaMartínez/posts/G77KS1htX49
The 2016 oxide electronic materials and oxide interfaces roadmap.
M Lorenz, M S Ramachandra Rao, T Venkatesan, E Fortunato, P Barquinha, R Branquinho, D Salgueiro, R Martins, E Carlos, A Liu, F K Shan, M Grundmann, H Boschker, J Mukherjee, M Priyadarshini,N DasGupta, D J Rogers, F H Teherani, E V Sandana, P Bove, K Rietwyk, A Zaban, A Veziridis,A Weidenkaff, M Muralidhar, M Murakami, S Abel, J Fompeyrine, J Zuniga-Perez, R Ramesh,N A Spaldin, S Ostanin, V Borisov, I Mertig, V Lazenka, G Srinivasan, W Prellier, M Uchida,M Kawasaki, R Pentcheva, P Gegenwart, F Miletto Granozio, J Fontcuberta and N Pryds.
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 (2016) 433001 (53pp). DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/49/43/433001
Spin Hall Magnetoresistance as a Probe for Surface Magnetization in Pt-CoFe2O4 Bilayers.
Miren Isasa, Saül Vélez, Edurne Sagasta, Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto, Nico Dix, Florencio Sánchez, Luis E. Hueso, Josep Fontcuberta, and Fèlix Casanova.
PHYS. REV. APPLIED 6, 034007 (2016). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.6.034007
Strain-Driven Orbital and Magnetic Orders and Phase Separation in Epitaxial Half-Doped Manganite Films for Tunneling Devices.
D. Pesquera, A. Barla, M. Wojcik, E. Jedryka, F. Bondino, E. Magnano, S. Nappini, D. Gutiérrez, G. Radaelli, G. Herranz, F. Sánchez, and J. Fontcuberta.
PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED 6, 034004 (2016). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.6.034004
High ferroelectric polarization in c-oriented BaTiO3 epitaxial thin films on SrTiO3/Si(001).
M. Scigaj, C. H. Chao, J. Gázquez, I. Fina, R. Moalla, G. Saint-Girons, M. F. Chisholm, G. Herranz, J. Fontcuberta, R. Bachelet, and F. Sánchez.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 122903 (2016). DOI: 10.1063/1.4962836
Describing synchronization and topological excitations in arrays of magnetic spin torque oscillators through the Kuramoto model.
Vegard Flovik, Ferran Macià & Erik Wahlström.
Scientific Reports, 6:32528 (2016). DOI: 10.1038/srep32528
Monolithic integration of roomtemperature multifunctional BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 epitaxial heterostructures on Si(001).
Mateusz Scigaj, Nico Dix, Jaume Gázquez, María Varela, Ignasi Fina, Neus Domingo, Gervasi Herranz, Vassil Skumryev, Josep Fontcuberta & Florencio Sánchez.
Scientific Reports, 6:31870 (2016). DOI: 10.1038/srep31870
Multiple strain-induced phase transitions in LaNiO3 thin films.
M. C. Weber, M. Guennou, N. Dix, D. Pesquera, F. Sánchez, G. Herranz, J. Fontcuberta, L. López-Conesa, S. Estradé, F. Peiró, Jorge Íniguez, and J. Kreisel.
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 94, 014118 (2016). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.014118
Untangling Electrostatic and Strain Effects on the Polarization of Ferroelectric Superlattices.
Ekaterina Khestanova, Nico Dix, Ignasi Fina, Mateusz Scigaj, José Manuel Rebled, César Magén, Sonia Estradé, Francesca Peiró, Gervasi Herranz, Josep Fontcuberta, and Florencio Sánchez*
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 6446–6453. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201602084
Giant Optical Polarization Rotation Induced by Spin-Orbit Coupling in Polarons
In this work, published in Physical Review Letters, we demonstrate that the polarization of light is changed dramatically when its energy resonates with the polaron-hopping energy of self-trapped electrons. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling, the self-trapped hopping electron may reverse its spin producing a large gyrotropic effect, which is observed close to room temperature. The effect is observed in La2∕3Ca1∕3MnO3 thin films and, plausibly, should be present in other manganites.
Since straining this kind of materials can change the polaron concentration, our finding suggests a route to mechanical or electro-mechanical control of the magneto-optical effect, paving the way to unconventional magnetoelectric effects.
This work has been highlighted with a Synopsis on the Physics website:
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.026401
Thickness and temperature dependence of the magnetodynamic damping of pulsed laser deposited La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 on (111)-oriented SrTiO3.
Vegard Flovik, Ferran Macià, Sergi Lendínez, Joan Manel Hernàndez, Ingrid Hallsteinsen, Thomas Tybell
Absence of magnetic proximity effects in magnetoresistive Pt/CoFe2O4 hybrid interfaces.
M. Valvidares, N. Dix, M. Isasa, K. Ollefs, F. Wilhelm, A. Rogalev, F. Sánchez, E. Pellegrin, A. Bedoya-Pinto, P. Gargiani, L. E. Hueso, F. Casanova, and J. Fontcuberta.
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 93, 214415 (2016). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.214415
The Shortening of MWNT-SPION Hybrids by Steam Treatment Improves Their Magnetic Resonance Imaging Properties In Vitro and In Vivo.
Laura Cabana, Maxime Bourgognon, Julie T.-W. Wang, Andrea Protti, Rebecca Klippstein, Rafael T. M. de Rosales, Ajay M. Shah, Josep Fontcuberta, Ester Tobías-Rossell, Jane K. Sosabowski, Khuloud T. Al-Jamal,* and Gerard Tobias*
Small 2016, 12, No. 21, 2893–2905. DOI: 10.1002/smll.201502721
Unravelling and controlling hidden imprint fields in ferroelectric capacitors.
Fanmao Liu, Ignasi Fina, Riccardo Bertacco & Josep Fontcuberta.
Scientific Reports, 6:25028 (2016). DOI: 10.1038/srep25028