Microwave spintronics for smart communication systems: energy harvesting, communication, security, edge computing

When and where 

January 29 and 30, 2026

Amphitheatre Bergès in the building GReeN-ER of Grenoble INP-UGA. 

The workshop will gather researchers from the academic and private sector in order to exchange on the potential that microwave spintronics offers for different application areas such as IoT, smart communicating objects and edge computing. 

The workshop covers four subject areas:

• RF energy harvesting for autonomous operation

• Wake-up receivers for low power RF communication

• True random number generation for secure communication

• Novel hardware approaches for unconventional computing at the edge

For each subject area, the state of the art on spintronics research will be introduced followed by an overview given by experts from the academic and private sector on the current developments and issues of the different application areas. Each subject area will be concluded by a round table discussion to allow for in depth discussions and evaluation of an exploitation roadmap.

There are no registration fees, but registration is mandatory to participate. 

There is a possibility to present a poster. 

Microwave spintronics: Microwave spintronics combines the physics of spintronics with the non-linear magnetization dynamics within magnetic tunnel junctions to generate and detect RF signals. Their multifunctional and complex dynamic properties of single and coupled devices (generation, modulation, frequency sweep, synchronization, chaos, exceptional point) allow defining numerous func-tionalities to address major issues of smart communication systems.

Organisation team:

Chairs:

- Ursula EBELS (SPINTEC)
- Florence PODEVIN (TIMA)

Program Committe:

- Vincent CROS (Laboratoire Albert Fert)
- Joo-Von KIM (C2N)
- Sébastien PETIT (Institut Jean Lamour)
- Grégoire DE LOUBENS (SPEC)
- Damien RONTANI (Centrale Supelec Metz)

This workshop is organized by the SpinCom consortium

of the France 2030 programme PEPR SPIN (https://www.pepr-spin.fr/)

and is supported by

France 2030 - PEPR SPIN, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Alpes Metropole, CEA-IRIG, IEEE CAS