Nicola Spaldin Awarded Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist
Nicola Spaldin, head of Materials Theory group, has been awarded the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for her outstanding research into multiferroic materials. Her work has laid the foundations for new ultrafast and energy-efficient data storage technologies.
Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin with Marcel Benoist Prizewinner Nicola Spaldin (Copyright: Daniel Rihs, picture taken on behalf of the SNSF)
Multiferroics are a new class of materials that respond to both magnetic and electric fields, a combination that does not generally occur simultaneously. This makes multiferroics promising materials that could, for example, replace silicon in future computer chips.
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