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​The  D. Ghiţu  Institute of Electronic Engineering and Nanotechnologies, which has a long experience in developing vacuum technologies for the fabrication of superconducting compounds and nanostructures, will be able to achieve the ambitious objectives of the project thanks to the strength and complementarity in the research capabilities of its consortium partners. The University of Twente will support SPINTECH with its  solid theoretical knowledge and expertise in low temperature techniques, while the University of Stockholm will provide the most advanced equipment for nanostructure characterisation.​

​The D. Ghiţu Institutul de Inginerie Electronica şi Nanotehnologii (IEEN) is one of the leading scientific institutions in Moldova. Its organisational framework consists of 5 departments and 162 employees (including 70 engineers and 73 researchers). The Institute's research efforts are focused on the investigation of physical processes and electronic transport in mesoscale and nanoscale structures as well as their implementation in electronic devices and functional systems. SPINTECH will be carried out by the Cryogenic Laboratory of IEEN, whose main activities include ​the development of vacuum technologies for the fabrication of superconducting compounds and nanostructures, the investigation of superconducting layered nanostructures as well as the development of electronic devices (for microelectronics and spintronics applications) and sensors (for environmental monitoring).

Founded in 1878, Stockholms Universitet is one of the largest universities in Scandinavia; it has more than 70,000 students, 1,800 doctoral students and 5,000 employees. The Condensed Matter and Quantum Optics Division of the Department of Physics  has a strong expertise in the field of hybrid superconductor/ferromagnet devices for spintronic applications and in the development of ultrasensitive nanocalorimetry methods. The Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Group, directly involved in the implementation of SPINTECH, focus its activities  on the study of mesoscopic phenomena in condensed matter physics,  with particular emphasis on high temperature superconductors (HTSC), low temperature physics, quantum electronics and spintronics, and nanotechnology.

Universiteit Twente is a young and entrepreneurial academic institution. Based within the University, MESA+ is one of the world’s largest nanotechnology research institutes, with a total of 525 researchers. Its ​Interfaces and Correlated Electron systems group (ICE), which will be directly involved in SPINTECH, focuses its research efforts on materials and interfaces with unconventional electronic properties, especially related to interactions between the mobile charge carriers. Their research aims at bridging fundamental studies with application-oriented ‘proof-of-principle’ device developments. Most of the experimental research is concentrated around thin film samples, which are fabricated in house with advanced thin film deposition and structuring techniques.

The SPINTECH project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 810144.​