International Workshop on the Frontiers of Racetrack Memory - Status and Prospects

The Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics organizes the workshop Frontiers of Racetrack Memory, which aims to attract international experts to discuss about status and prospects of spintronic applications based on the manipulation of magnetic textures (i.e. domain walls, skyrmions, etc.), with particular focus on:

• Magnetic memories and logic devices
• Spin and orbital torques
• Neuromorphic and unconventional computing
• 3D magnetic devices
• Non-collinear antiferromagnets
• Superconducting spintronics

The Racetrack Memory is an innovative information storage technology that employs magnetic domains as non-volatile information ‘bits’, which can be densely stacked in magnetic nanowires and displaced by spin currents. Since its conceptualization about 20 years ago, there have been countless of research contributions about the manipulation and control of magnetic textures for memory, logic and computing applications. In these years, the scientific excitement for the Racetrack Memory has promoted the discovery of highly interesting new physics, the synthesis of novel materials and heterostructures, as well the development of sophisticated device engineering for both 2D and 3D spintronic applications.