News

November 20, 2024

We are excited to announce that abstract submission is now open for the 2nd International Workshop on Ising Machines (IISM 2025), which will be held in Chicago/Evanston, May 13-15, 2025. IISM was born out of the growing interest in physics-inspired unconventional computing approaches for applications such as combinatorial optimization. Now in its second year, IISM aims to provide a dedicated platform for discussion and collaboration in this fast-growing field.

Please submit your abstract (deadline: January 20, 2025) using the link available on our website. 

November 14, 2024

The 6th Joint Annual Meeting of the IEEE Magnetics Society and Nanotechnology Council Chicago Chapters was a great success! This year's event was co-organized for the first time with the Magnetics Society's South East Michigan Chapter.

September 5, 2024

We are excited to be part of the newly announced DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC), the Center for Energy-Efficient Magnonics (CEEMag).

December 15, 2023

Prof. Khalili is named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council.

November 14, 2022

We are excited to share our most recent paper, which reports the smallest write voltage and bit size for magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) switched by the voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect.

Paper: Sub-Volt Switching of Nanoscale Voltage-Controlled Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions 

Press release: Improving MRAM by Lessening Reliance on Electric Currents 

June 22, 2021

We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, which demonstrates electrical switching of non-collinear  antiferromagnetic IrMn3 using differential voltage measurements: Paper, News release (Northwestern), MRAM-info coverage. 

November 23, 2020

Zedong Hu receives the best poster award at the 2nd Annual Joint Meeting of the IEEE Magnetics Society and Nanotechnology Council Chicago chapters!

June 1, 2020

IEEE Spectrum highlights our recent work on antiferromagnetic PtMn memory devices!

February 10, 2020

Check out our new work in Nature Electronics, where we demonstrate electrical control of antiferromagnetic order in a CMOS-compatible metallic antiferromagnet, using very low current density: 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-020-0367-2  

The technology may enable highly scaled, secure, and ultrafast MRAM based on antiferromagnetic materials, for AI and high-performance computing applications. 

In collaboration with Prof. Giovanni Finocchio and Prof. Matthew Grayson. Kudos to the team: Jiacheng Shi, Dr. Victor Lopez-Dominguez, Dr. Hamid Almasi, Prof. Francesca Garesci, Chulin Wang.

November 21, 2019

Jiacheng Shi receives the best poster award at the Inaugural Annual Joint Meeting of the IEEE Magnetics Society and Nanotechnology Council Chicago chapters!

November 5, 2019

Dr. Victor Lopez-Dominguez presented PERL's latest results on current-controlled antiferromagnetic memory devices at the MMM conference in Las Vegas.

July 1, 2019

We welcome Dr. Riccardo Tomasello, who joins PERL as a visiting postdoctoral researcher!

February 7, 2019

Our work on "Picosecond electric-field-induced switching of antiferromagnets" just appeared in Physical Review Applied!

February 4, 2019

Prof. Khalili delivers invited talk on ultrafast magnetic switching and sensing at SPIE Photonics West.

January 11, 2019

Don't miss Victor's talk next week on voltage-induced switching of antiferromagnets at the MMM-Intermag Conference in Washington DC (Session DA-09)!

September 7, 2018

We welcome Jiacheng Shi, who will be pursuing his PhD studies at PERL!

August 13, 2018

We welcome Yixin Shao, who will be pursuing his PhD studies at PERL!

August 10, 2018

Prof. Khalili delivers an invited talk on voltage-induced magnetic switching at the IEEE Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC).

July 18, 2018

Check out Dr. Victor Lopez-Dominguez presenting his work on switching of antiferromagnets at ICM in San Francisco (Session N2-10).

July 11, 2018

Prof. Giovanni Finocchio of the University of Messina visits Northwestern and delivers the PERL research seminar!

July 10, 2018

Prof. Khalili is elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE!

May 23, 2018

Prof. Khalili delivers Meet the Faculty Seminar on "Computing with Nanoscale Magnets"!

May 4, 2018

Dr. Dafiné Ravelosona (CNRS and Université Paris Sud) visited PERL and delivered the EECS seminar.

February 12, 2018

Prof. Khalili presents an invited talk at the IEEE Advances in Magnetics Conference (Read more).

December 1, 2017

We welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Hamid Almasi!

October 1, 2017

PERL welcomes our first postdoc, Dr. Victor Lopez-Dominguez!