The ISOM Magnetic Devices Group was created in 1984 and was officially recognised by the UPM-CAM in 2005. Today it is made up of 7 doctorates, 5 researchers, 2 students and 2 technicians, out of a total of 16 people. The group has extensive experience in the field of magnetic materials, devices and sensors and does basic and applied research. The greater part of its members come from the Physics Applied to Information Technologies Department at the HTSE for Telecommunications. Its research work is carried out in the ISOM, which has been recognised as a Unique Scientific and Technical Facility.
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ISOM Magnetic Devices Group
Structure: Research Groups
Our work focusses on magnetic materials and their use in sensors and devices. We have always sought to combine basic research subjects with applied research subjects that are highly related to business. Our current lines of work can be grouped as follows:
- Magnetic sensors (vehicle detection, linear motors and meter fraud, etc.)
- Instrumentation (magnetrons and susceptometers)
- Low frequency smart cards,
- Magnetic metal multilayers. Spin valves. CPP measurements,
- Magnetic domain wall dynamics,
- Spin transfer in magnetic walls and magnetic nanostructures,
- Magnetic nanoparticles and nanobelts for biomedical applications
- Green Energy: Permanent Magnets
- Information and Communications: Quantum Communications
- Information and Communications: Spintronic devices and storage technologies
- Nanomaterials for Emerging Applications: Nanobiomedical Applications
As we are a part of the Optoelectronics and Microtechnology Institute (ISOM), we have a huge amount of resources available relating to micro and nanotechnology. We mainly use these resources for basis research projects. We are currently working on three projects under the National R&D Plan which, in the last few years, have produced several patents (5), articles published in high impact journals (e.g., Physical Review and Nature) and the development of a range of scientific instrumentation (e.g., magnetic positioners for vacuums, magnetrons, magnetometers and magnetic sensors, etc.). We carry out applied research in collaboration with businesses. We are currently working with several businesses on various projects: identifying vehicles by their magnetic signature, which is currently being implemented in its use at borders, antifraud systems for water meters, linear motors, and documentation authentication systems, etc.
It is also worth noting that, since its beginnings, the research group has collaborated intensively with the UCM. Almost all the projects carried out by the group with public institutions and businesses have been in collaboration with the MDG-UCM. When the Moncloa International excellence campus opened, this collaboration became even more pronounced so that we now have complementary techniques for sample growth and profiling that are used interchangeably by members of both groups. The creation of the campus enabled us to collaborate with other UPM groups, such as the Bioengineering and Telemedicine Group, as well as other UPM groups, such as the THIRD GENERATION BIOMATERIALS AND SMART BIOMATERIALS Group and the SURFACE SCIENCE Group, with which we co-directed 2 doctoral theses funded by the IEC. We have also started up a collaboration in the field of spintronics with the Complex Materials Group at the UCM.
