Preliminary Program

Detailed Program

Detailed Program

Tuesday 21^st

Session 1  Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for sensors

9h15-9h30: Opening Claude Fermon

9h30-10h00: O1, Prof. Michael Coey, CRANN, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Noise in magnetic sensors

10h-10h30: O2, Dr. Edmund Nowak, University of Delaware, USA

Noise Spectroscopy of Modern Magnetoresistive Materials

10h30-11h: coffee break

11h00-11h30: O3, Dr. Bill Egelhoff,NIST, USA

Challenges for picoTesla Magnetic-Tunnel-Junction Sensors

11h30-12h00: O4, Dr. Béatrice Négulescu, LPM, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Vandoeuvre, France

Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium spintronic phenomena in single crystal MgO based magnetic tunnel junctions

12h-12h30: O5, Dr. Johannes Paul, Sensitec GmbH, Germany

Development of magnetic tunnel barriers in a manufacturing line for sensor production

12h30-14h: Lunch

14h-14h30: O6, Dr. Michel Viret , DSM/IRAMIS/SPEC, CEA, France

Tunneling through oxides and vacuum in confined geometries

Session 2: Biochips and particle detection

14h30-15h00: O7, Joana Loureiro, INESC-MN, Portugal

Detection of flowing particles with magnetic sensors

 15h00-15h30: O8, Dr. Riccardo Bertacco, LNESS - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Single bead detection on a magnetic domain wall

15h30-16h00:  O9, Filippe Cardoso, INESC-MN, Portugal

Biochips

16h00-16h30: coffee break

16h30-18h00 : Poster session

20h00 : Diner for person with on site accomodation

Wednesday 22nd

Session 1: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for sensors: characterization and noise

9h30-10h00: O10, Dr. Thibaut Devolder, IEF, Université Paris Sud, France

Microwave noise in nanopillars made from magnetic tunnel junctions

10h00-10h30: O11, Prof. Farkhad Aliev, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Conductance and noise in fully epitaxial Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions

10h30-11h00: O12, Jose Almeida, INESC-MN, Portugal

Noise in tunnel sensors

11h00-11h30: coffee break

11h30-12h00: O13, Dr. Alan Edelstein, US Army Research Laboratory, USA

MEMS 1/f suppression

12h00-12h30: O14, Prof. Paulo Freitas, INESC-MN, Portugal

MEMS approaches for noise cancellation

12h30-14h: Lunch

Session 3: Ultra low field detection: biomagnetism and NMR

14h00-14h30: O15, Prof. Martin Burghoff, PTB, Germany

Ultra low field detection: biomagnetism and NMR

14h30-15h00: O16, Dr. Lauri Parkonen , Elekta SA, Finland

On the nature of MEG signals

15h-15h30: O17, Prof. Risto Ilmoniemi, Dept. Biomed. Eng. and Comput. Sci., TKK, Finland

Low field MRI

15h30-16h00: O18, Dr. Myriam Pannetier-Lecoeur, DSM/IRAMIS/SPEC,CEA, France

Mixed sensors for biomagnetism

16h00-16h30: coffee break

16h30-18h: Round Table

-    Which directions to improve TMR sensors?

-         Future directions for very sensitive integrated magnetic devices?

-         Building of a new European project?

19h-Workshop diner

Thursday 23d

Session 4: Other applications of TMR sensors (automotive, domestic, NDE…)

9h-9h30: O19, Dr. Jan Marien, Naomi GmBH, Germany

New Sensing Concepts based on XMR-Effects for automotive and industrial applications

9h30-10h: O20, Dr. Frederic Van Dau, UMR CNRS-Thales, France

TMR sensors : applications and technological challenges

10h-10h30: O21, Dr. Christophe Dolobdjian, GREYC, Caen

 Highly sensitive sensor development and use. Some elements of thought through GREYC lab experience.

10h30-11h: coffee break

11h-11h30: O22, Dr. Beatrice Negulescu, LPM, Université de Nancy, France

MTJ linear field sensor with exchange pinned detection layer for automotive applications

11h30-12h: O23, Prof. Günther  Reiss, Bielefeld University, Germany

Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with MgO barriers - Current induced switching and applications in Logic Circuits

12h00-13h00: Lunch

Visit of Neurospin

13h30: Departure from Abbaye to Neurospin by bus

14h00: Claude Fermon, Introduction,

14h10: O24, Antti Ahonen, Elekta SA, Finland

Magnetoencephalography: Principles, Techniques and Recent Results

14h40: O25, Dr Jean-Baptiste Poline, Neurospin, France

Brain imaging and cognitive research at Neurospin

15h10: Visit of Neurospin and MEG center with coffee break

 16h10: bus departure for l’Abbaye (Biomagsens participants)/ bus departure for Le Guichet RER station