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A new mechanism is proposed to explain the observation of gate-controlled superconductivity reported in recent works. The theoretical model shows that magnetic impurities on the superconductor surface can assist pair breaking under an electric field.

Together with other partners from the SuperGate consortium, we study the reasons why devices made by subtractive patterning other than additive patterning do not show gate-controlled superconductivity.

In this study led by us and in collaboration with other teams, we find that NiS2 nanoflakes exhibit giant magnetoresistance due to non-collinear magnetic spin textures forming on their surface.

Collaborative project led by the group of Prof. Anahory from the Racah Institute of Physics paves the way for manipulation of single vortices with precision better than 100 nm!

Together with the groups of Professors Beena Kalisky, Oded Millo and Yossi Paltiel from Israel, we find edge states that are triggered by chiral molecules patterned onto a Nb thin film.

In this News and Views article for Nature, we discuss an outstanding result reported by Nakajima et al. on a chiral superconductor and illustrate the potential of this material for spintronic and superconducting spintronics applications!

Prof. Di Bernardo gets awarded the prestigious Kurti Science Prize for Europe for low-temperature Physics. The prize is awarded by a committee of senior European academics and sponsored by Oxford Instruments.

Our group publishes a Perspective article on SrRuO3, one of the most intensively investigated metal oxide compounds.

Our group has successfully led another international collaboration and published a new manuscript showing that chiral molecules (ChMs) can radically change the macroscopic Meissner state of a conventional (Nb) superconductor, once adsorbed onto its surface. The results published in Physical Review Materials pave the way for the realisation of superconducting devices, where the magnetic flux coupled through a S is changed locally via adsorbed ChMs.