Dr. Manuel Bibes

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsExperimental Condensed Matter Physics
Keywordsmultiferroics, oxide interfaces, spintronics

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityPalaiseau
InstitutionCNRS -Thales (UMR 137) - Laboratoire Albert Fert

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ingrid MertigInstitut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2018

Programme(s)

2017Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Dr. Bibes is internationally recognized for his seminal work on multiferroics with a focus on thin film materials physics and device manifestations, in particular spintronics. He has made numerous contributions to magnetism, particularly to fundamental aspects of magnetotransport in complex oxides, and has discovered giant electroresistance in ferroelectric tunnel junctions. In Germany, he will work on noncollinear spintextures at oxide interfaces.