Research team develops ultra-high sensitivity nanoscale microwave detectors

By using innovative magnetic materials, an international collaborative of researchers has made a breakthrough in the development of microwave detectors – devices that can sense weak microwave signals used for mobile communications, radar, and other applications. The team's detectors are compact and provide record-high sensitivity. They are known as spin-torque microwave detectors (STMDs), as they use the spin of electrons to detect microwave signals, unlike existing detectors, which use th