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Caretta wins 2023 iWOE Prize in Oxide Electronics for Excellence in Research.

Caretta named to Matter Journal’s 2023 35 under 35 tackling challenges in materials science.

CarettaLab Wins 2023 Brown SEED Funding: From atoms to devices, Assistant Professor Lucas Caretta aims to synthesize and discover new materials to push research and technology further.

Manipulating Materials at Brown University.

Researchers flip the switch on electric control of crystal symmetry: By bringing together the right materials duking it out, a collaboration has for the first time used voltage to turn on and off a material’s crystal symmetry, thereby controlling its electronic, optical and other properties – a discovery that could have a profound impact on building future memory and logic devices

Bessa and Caretta join Brown Engineering faculty

Science Perspectives | Physics: A new spin on special relativity: “The authors experimentally demonstrate that domain walls possess fundamental velocity limits corresponding not to the speed of light but instead to the limiting speed of high-energy spin waves.”

Phys.org: Speed of magnetic domain walls found to be fundamentally limited

CEMS News: CEMS alumnus Lucas Caretta awarded prestigious fellowships: Lucas Caretta (MSE ’13) has been awarded two postdoctoral fellowship awards, a 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship and the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, to support his research in the Ramamoorthy Ramesh Lab at UC-Berkeley

ALBA Synchrotron Newsletter: Engineering intrinsic chiral exchange interactions in magnetic oxides.

MIT News: Controllable fast, tiny magnetic bits - MIT researchers show how to make and drive nanoscale magnetic quasi-particles known as skyrmions for spintronic memory devices.

Nanowerk: Extremely small magnetic nanostructures with invisibility cloak imaged

The IET, Engineering & Technology: Could skyrmions change the future of computing? - Researchers believe devices based on skyrmions – particles consisting of a magnetic field surrounding a group of atoms – will have the potential to change the future of computing.

Physics World: Ferrimagnets speed up racetrack memories

Phys.org: Researchers find ferrimagnets could be used to speed up spintronics devices