Combining Advanced Materials for Interface Engineering

Combining Advanced Materials for Interface Engineering (CAMIE) aims to develop new ways to store, manipulate and transport information, based on our unique approach to materials integration and interface control.  Using the integrated Royce deposition system, fundamentally different materials can be brought together into single hybrid structures to realise new emergent functionality useful for enhanced device performance.  By controlling interfaces at the atomic level, we will seek phenomena that have the potential to reduce energy loss in novel structures: for example, using surface states of topological insulators (TIs) should reduce the current densities required to move chiral spin structures; molecular interfaces can enhance the effective spin-orbit coupling increasing charge-spin conversion efficiency; switching ferroelectrics that are coupled to spin statics and dynamics involves lower loss than switching ferromagnets.  A complete understanding of such hybrid structures will pave the way to exploitable technologies likely to define the future of information processing and storage.

CAMIE is funded by the EPSRC Programme Grant (EP/X027074/1) and is a collaboration between the University of Leeds, Imperial College London and Queen’s University Belfast.