Prize winner 2022

 

In 2022, Prof. Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zuerich) receives the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics for her pioneering research on a new class of materials known as multiferroics. These will facilitate ground-breaking microelectronics applications,  such as the building of ultra-fast data repositories or supersensitive sensors.
Nicola Spaldin’s theoretical analyses and experiments have paved the way for the production of tailor-made ferromagnetic and ferroelectric crystals. These versatile magnetoelectric materials promise ground-breaking applications: in computers, for example, by eliminating the need to physically separate the electrical processing of information in the processor and its magnetic storage on hard drives. This would ensure a higher processing power and lower power consumption, leading experts to hope that multiferroic metal oxide compounds could compete with silicon as semiconductors.

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