Everspin Technologies has announced a strategic manufacturing agreement with Microchip Technology to expand on-shore production of its MRAM and tunnel magnetoresistive (TMR) sensor products. The initial 10-year deal, which can be extended in two-year increments, will see Everspin establish a copy exact (plus) MRAM line at a Microchip semiconductor fabrication facility in Oregon, mirroring its existing line in Chandler, Arizona.

Under the agreement, Everspin will transfer its magnetic technology and MRAM manufacturing process into Microchip’s Oregon fab while retaining ownership of its spintronic IP and process know-how, using Microchip’s foundry capacity to scale output. This added line is designed to increase wafer capacity for MRAM and TMR devices, provide a fully on-shore second source, and support long-term supply continuity for spintronics-based non-volatile memory and sensor products well into the next decade.

Researchers from Penn State, University of Oxford, Zhejiang University, Diamond Light Source and the University of North Texas have engineered an atomically confined gallium trilayer between graphene and silicon carbide that hosts robust Ising‑type superconductivity under strong in‑plane magnetic fields. This interface‑driven superconducting state in a light‑element heterostructure opens intriguing opportunities for integrating superconductivity with spin‑based functionalities in future spintronics devices.

The device consists of just three atomic layers of gallium sandwiched between a graphene overlayer and a 6H‑SiC(0001) substrate, grown using plasma‑free confinement epitaxy assisted by a carbon buffer layer. Within this ultra‑thin “quantum well,” superconductivity emerges at low temperatures, while the graphene capping layer protects the gallium from oxidation and contamination and the SiC substrate provides a structurally and electronically active interface. The result is a clean, strongly confined 2D superconducting channel whose properties are dominated by interfacial quantum interactions.

Researchers from University College London, University of Leeds, Tohoku University, Imperial College London and Japan Atomic Energy Agency have demonstrated that spin transfer torques in nearly isotropic CoFeB-based magnets can dynamically stabilize magnetic states that are unstable in equilibrium, realizing a nanoscale spintronic analogue of the Kapitza pendulum.

The team uses MgO∣CoFeB∣W multilayers, where the demagnetizing field favors in-plane magnetization while an interface-induced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), tuned by post-growth annealing, counter-balances this tendency. By carefully optimizing the growth-annealing protocol, the shape and interface anisotropies almost cancel, yielding magnets with vanishingly small effective anisotropy that are nearly isotropic on the Bloch sphere. This near-isotropy is crucial because it suppresses conventional auto-oscillations and lowers the critical current needed to drive the system into a strongly nonlinear dynamical regime.

Researchers from the University of Maryland, University of California, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, East China Normal University, KAUST and other institutes recently reported all‑van der Waals multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) that combine ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity in a single nanoscale spintronic device, enabling four non‑volatile resistance states for multibit memory operation. 

These multistate junctions are realized by vertically stacking three atomically thin crystals: two ferromagnetic electrodes and a ferroelectric tunnelling barrier, all obtained by mechanical exfoliation and then assembled into a clean, defect‑sparse heterostructure. In their prototypical structure, Fe₃GeTe₂/CuInP₂S₆/Fe₃GeTe₂, multilayer Fe₃GeTe₂ serves as the ferromagnetic electrodes, while CuInP₂S₆ (CIPS) provides a ferroelectric spacer with switchable polarization. Because the layers are coupled by van der Waals forces rather than epitaxial bonding, the stack avoids stringent lattice‑matching and chemical‑compatibility constraints that hinder oxide‑based MFTJs and is far less susceptible to interfacial defects and interdiffusion.

A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University, the University of Edinburgh, the Donostia International Physics Center and the University of Arkansas has revealed how magnetic domains behave inside 2D van der Waals magnets based on Fe₃GeTe₂ (FGT), providing a roadmap for tuning skyrmions using material thickness and magnetic‑field conditions. 

The researchers worked with a thin, layered FGT flake whose thickness changed gradually across the sample, creating regions that behave differently magnetically while still being part of the same crystal. Because FGT in this study is magnetic only at low temperature, the flake was cooled with liquid nitrogen to cryogenic temperatures while an out‑of‑plane magnetic field was applied (field cooling), setting up well‑defined initial domain patterns.

Researchers from the University of Konstanz, Institute of Science Tokyo and TU Dortmund University recently demonstrated that coherent terahertz (THz) magnons can transfer their coherence to electronic charges in the insulating antiferromagnet NiO, providing a crucial step toward energy‑efficient, THz‑speed spintronic devices compatible with CMOS technology. The core idea is that optically driven THz spin waves imprint a coherent, charge‑dominated signal onto the material’s optical response, realizing a spin‑to‑charge conversion stage mediated by light.

Collective spin excitations - magnons, i.e., quantized spin waves of large spin ensembles - naturally operate in the THz range and promise low‑loss information transfer, but integrating them with conventional electronics requires converting their spin signal into an electrical one. In this work, the team uses NiO as a prototypical dielectric antiferromagnet and excites coherent THz magnons with femtosecond laser pulses whose photon energy lies below the 4 eV bandgap, so that the primary excitation channel addresses the spin system rather than creating a dense electron–hole plasma.

Researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, CNRS AND Radboud University recently demonstrated that tiny magnetic vortices can host self-induced Floquet states driven purely by internal magnon dynamics, without the need for high-power laser fields. By periodically modulating the vortex core with low-power microwave excitation, they engineer Floquet bands in the magnon spectrum and observe clear frequency-comb signatures in nanometer-scale magnetic disks.

Floquet engineering uses a periodic drive to create effective Hamiltonians and band structures that do not exist in equilibrium, enabling exotic states and modified spin interactions. In this work, the periodic drive is not an external optical field but arises from internal modes of a magnetic vortex in an ultrathin disk, where the magnetization curls in-plane and forms a nanoscale vortex core with out-of-plane orientation. When microwave magnons are driven strongly enough, nonlinear coupling transfers energy into a circular gyration of the vortex core, which then acts as a time-periodic perturbation that renormalizes the magnon band structure.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and University of Nevada have proposed a new class of quantum materials - superconducting altermagnets - that could carry persistent spin-polarized currents with zero dissipation, marking a potential breakthrough in superconducting spintronics. 

The team's theoretical study shows how these materials can host spin supercurrents that remain stable even in the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and magnetic disorder - conditions that usually extinguish spin transport in normal metals.

Here are some recent and popular spintronics industry and research news that you may find of interest:

• Spin-controlled photon emission in 2D perovskites enables quantum communication
• Rhombus-shaped nanographenes enable room-temperature pure spin currents
• Researchers succeed in directly tracking how chiral nanowires control electron spins
• The Faraday effect’s hidden magnetic dimension
• Researchers develop a digital spintronic compute-in-memory macro for energy AI
• AI framework accelerates discovery of antiferromagnets for next‑gen spintronics
• Wrinkles in 2D materials could enable efficient spintronic devices
• Breakthrough method uncovers hidden magnetic signals in non-magnetic metals
• Researchers observe spin currents in graphene without magnetic fields
• Researchers observe a new form of magnetism
• Researchers show that light can interact with single-atom layers
• New antiferromagnetic spintronics project receives funding of nearly $4 million
• TDK announces the world's first "Spin Photo Detector" with 10X data transmission speeds
• Intel unveils a highly promising MESO spintronics device architecture
• Researchers use perovskite materials and light to control electron spins

A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill research team has demonstrated a novel way to encode quantum information directly within the light produced by two-dimensional perovskites - opening a potential path to simpler, more efficient quantum communication systems. The study explores how spin dynamics in two-dimensional organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite (2D-OIHP) quantum wells can generate polarization-encoded photons suitable for secure communication protocols.

Two-dimensional perovskites are well known for their performance in light-emitting and photovoltaic devices, but the UNC team, led by Professor Andrew Moran, has shown they can also act as microscopic light sources whose intrinsic exciton spin behavior defines the polarization of emitted photons. When ultrafast laser pulses excite the material, they generate pairs of bound charge carriers - excitons - whose spins determine the polarization of emitted light.