Consortium meeting, Imperial College London

The fifth CAMIE consortium meeting took place at Imperial College London over two days in early October. The meeting brought together researchers from across the consortium to discuss project progress and future research directions.

The first day focussed on exploring new ideas and planning future activities, with ECRs actively contributing to discussions. Their involvement helped to create an engaging and collaborative environment, encouraging the exchange of ideas and questions across the consortium.

Throughout the meeting, ECRs delivered presentations showcasing the progress of their research since the previous consortium meeting, providing an opportunity to share results, receive feedback, and identify potential areas for future collaboration.

The second day included two training talks. These were delivered by Bryan Hickey and Antony Vamvakeros, a Royal Society Industry Fellow at Imperial College London, offering valuable insights and professional development opportunities for consortium members.

The meeting also benefitted from input and feedback from Advisory Board members.

Programme

Monday 5 October

10:30 – 11:00 Arrival and refreshments
11:00 – 11:05 Welcome and logistics, Sandrine Heutz
11:05 – 11:20 Overview of panel report from mid-term review and response, Bryan Hickey
11:20 – 11:35 Thoughts from the Advisory Board
11:35 – 13:00 Open discussion of the next phase of the project
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:20 Reports on Scientific Progress I:

• Fermi Surface Reconstruction and & topological transport in Pt/Co/C60​, Zac Parkin
• Giant Spin-Orbit Torques from Topological Materials​, Soumyarup Hait
• Progress on the non-collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Mn3Fe, Servet Ozdemir
• Electric-Field Control of Magnetism in BiFeO3-Based Magnetic Heterostructures​, Sehwan Song
• Investigating Helix Arrays in Twisted Bonded Lithium Niobate Interfaces using Synchrotron X-Rays​, Ronan Lynch

15:20 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:45 Reports on Scientific Progress II:

• Recent Works on TEM, Ping-Luen (Baron) Ho
• Atomic scale modelling of coupled magnetic ferroelectric domains in bismuth ferrite​, Pietro Canali
• Magnetic Signatures from Ferroelectric Switching​, Mark McCann
• DFT calculations on Mn3Ge, Marios Georgiou

16:45 – 17:15 Closed ECR meeting
19:00 Dinner

Tuesday 6 October

09:30 – 09:40 Reports on Scientific Progress III:

• CAMIE Update, Keelan Sloan
• Molecular Interfaces – An update​, Hari Babu Vasili
• Controlling the magnetic properties of phthalocyanine thin films using interfacial design, functional substrates and optoelectronic manipulation​, Emma Bryan
• Hints of ferroic behaviour in a polar metal​, Conor McCluskey
• Topological Insulator / Magnetic Multilayer Heterostructures​, Ben Brereton
• Moiré effect - lateral superlattices​, Ahmet Yagmur

11:10 – 12:00 Collaborative discussions
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Developing open science tools and data for next-generation materials characterisation, Antony Vamvakeros
14:00 – 15:00 The Berry Phase, Bryan Hickey
15:00 – 16:00 Further discussions
16:00 Finish