C-SPIN - Key Persons
Dr. Raghunathan is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue. Before joining Purdue, he was a Senior Research Staff Member and Project Leader at NEC Labs America, where he led research and technology transfer efforts in the areas of System-on-chip design, secure embedded computing, and design methodology. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University and a B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Prof. Raghunathan received eight best-paper awards at premier IEEE and ACM conferences, and two Technology Commercialization awards and a Patent of the Year award from NEC Labs. He received the TR35 award from MIT (given to 35 young innovators worldwide across all areas of science and technology) for his contributions to "making mobile secure". He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society. He has chaired three premier IEEE conferences and served on several IEEE/ACM conference Technical Program Committees and journal Editorial Boards. Prof. Raghunathan's research at Purdue focuses on computing with post-CMOS devices [1-3], domain-specific processing for emerging workloads such as recognition and data mining, energy-efficient design, and heterogeneous parallel computing. Prof. Raghunathan has published a book, eight book chapters, over 190 refereed conference and journals papers, holds 22 U.S patents, and has presented several invited talks and tutorials in these areas.
B. Kim, W. Xu, C.H. Kim, "A Fully-Digital Beat-Frequency Based ADC Achieving 37dB SNDR for a 1.6mVpp Input Signal", Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2013.
Dr. Ross joined MIT in 1997 and is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. From 1991 to 1997, she was an engineer at Komag Inc, a manufacturer of hard disks. Dr. Ross is a fellow of the American Physical Society, Institute of Physics (UK), IEEE and Materials Research Society. She was the chair of the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference in 2011, and the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in 1998. She has served on the editorial boards of J. Physics D: Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters / Journal of Applied Physics and the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. She has edited two books, has 16 patents awarded and has authored approximately 300 publications.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska
Dr. Chien is the Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics, at the Johns Hopkins University, where he has been a professor since 1983. During 1997-2013 he has also served as the director of the NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). Dr. Chien earned the Ph.D. in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon University, in 1972. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). He received the 2004 APS David Adler Award, and was the first recipient of the Asian Union of Magnetics Societies Award in 2012. He has 400 publications, which have been cited over 16,000 times, and he has an H-factor of 64. Dr. Chien's recent research accomplishments relevant for this proposal include: the first demonstration of voltage-controlled spintronic devices at < 1.5 V and 104 A/cm 2 [1]; observation of intrinsic spin-dependent thermal transport [2]; fabrication of arrays of magnetic nanorings and tunnel junctions with 100-nm diameter and 20 nm ring width [3], and demonstration of Andreev reflection spectroscopy for quantitative measurements of spin polarization in metals and superconducting gaps in superconductors [4-5].
Dr. Palmstrøm is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Materials Departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B.Sc. in physics and electronic engineering and Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Leeds. After being a Lecturer in Norway and a Research Associate at Cornell, he joined Bellcore as a Member of Technical Staff in 1985. From 1994-2007 he was a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. In 2004, he became the Amundson Chair Professor. In 2007 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research includes contributions in the field of epitaxial growth of combinations of dissimilar materials with the emphasis on tailoring electronic and magnetic properties by controlling interfaces at the atomic level. He was the first to report epitaxial growth of Heusler alloys on III-V semiconductors [1]. In collaboration with Paul Crowell, he demonstrated high efficiency spin injection into GaAlAs using epitaxial Fe [2] and epitaxial Heusler alloy contacts [3]. He showed the importance of the interface ordering [4] and the semiconductor band structure [5] on the spin transport, and they demonstrated the first fully electrical scheme for achieving spin injection, transport and detection in a single device [6] Currently he has SRC sponsored research on epitaxial Heusler alloy based spin torque device materials. He is the author of over 225 publications, including five review chapters and research monographs. Dr. Palmstrøm is a Fellow of AVS APS, and MRS.
Dr. Binek is Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 2009. He received his PhD in Germany at the University of Duisburg in 1995 followed by a Habilitation in 2001 giving him the opportunity of numerous research experiences abroad including neutron diffraction in Grenoble, France and calorimetry at the RIKEN institute in Tokyo/Wako, Japan. Dr. Binek's most noticeable awards are the 1996 award of the Duisburger Universitätsgesellschaft for his outstanding PhD thesis and the Sigma Xi outstanding young scientist award in 2007. Dr Binek pioneered the field of perpendicular exchange bias [1]. He and collaborators were the first to propose and realize voltage-controlled exchange bias utilizing the magnetoelectric effect of chromia [2,3,4]. In 2005, Dr. Binek published a groundbreaking article on magnetoelectronics [5]. In 2010, he worked with Dr. Dowben and Dr. Belashchenko demonstrating electric control of boundary magnetization in chromia [6]. In addition to electrically controlled magnetism and spintronics, Dr. Binek is interested in fundamental thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. He discovered the field-induced Griffiths phase [7], pioneered magnetic thin film heterostructures for magnetocaloric materials design [8], contributed to the field of nonextensive thermodynamics [9], and provided the hitherto only thermodynamic theory of the exchange bias training effect [10]. Dr. Binek is author of 84 publications in peer review journals, a 2003 STMP monograph on Ising-type antiferromagnets, book chapters on magnetoelectrics and multiferroics, and co-author of a textbook on fundamental thermal physics which will be published by Wiley in 2013.
Dr. Lilja received the Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in Ames. He is currently the Louis John Schnell Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he also serves as the ECE department head, as a member of the graduate faculties in Computer Science and Scientific Computation, and as a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute. Previously, he worked at the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois, and as a development engineer at Tandem Computers Incorporated in Cupertino, California. He has chaired and served on the program committees of numerous conferences, and was a distinguished visitor of the IEEE Computer Society. He received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to visit the University of Western Australia in 2001, and was awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship by the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota. He is internationally recognized for his research in computer architecture, parallel processing, computer systems performance analysis, high-performance storage systems, and the interaction of computer architecture and circuits. His contributions have been recognized as a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The following papers highlight some of his work in areas related to this proposal.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Sylvester is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2000-2005 he was an Assistant Professor at Michigan, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and full Professor in 2010. He received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Chenming Hu (1995-1999). Dr. Sylvester has made seminal contributions in the area of low-power integrated circuit design, including the first theoretical calculation of the energy-optimal operating voltage for arbitrary circuits [1], as well as the lowest power voltage references [2,3], lowest standby power microprocessor [4], smallest integrated wireless microsystem [5], and the first 3D many-core chip [6] ever reported. He has also worked in low-power design for emerging post-CMOS devices [7,8].
Dr. Supriyo Datta received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1975 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977 and 1979 working on ultrasonics. Since 1985 he has focused on current flow in nanoscale electronic devices and the approach pioneered by his group for the description of quantum transport, combining the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism of many-body physics with the Landauer formalism from mesoscopic physics, has been widely adopted in the field of nanoelectronics. This is described in his books Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems (Cambridge 1995) and Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor (Cambridge 2005) and he was elected to the NAE for this work.
Datta is also well-known for his contributions to spin electronics and molecular electronics. He has received Technical Field Awards from the IEEE both for research and for graduate teaching and was selected by Sigma Xi to receive the Procter Prize. The problem of current flow involves some of the deepest issues of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and with this in mind, Datta's latest book Lessons from Nanoelectronics: A New Perspective on Transport (World Scientific 2012) tries to make the insights gained from nanoelectronics accessible to a broader audience.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT
Geoffrey Beach is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He received a B.S. in Physics from Caltech in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 2003 at the UCSD Center for Magnetic Recording Research. After his postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, Prof. Beach joined the MIT faculty and established the Laboratory for Nanomagnetism and Spin Dynamics, which pursues advanced spin-based concepts in data storage, logic, and biomedical applications. His work has been recognized with numerous awards including most recently a Deshpande Center Award for Technological Innovation, the MIT Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the MIT Class of 1958 Chaired Professorship.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Materials Science
Prof. Takeuchi is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and an Affiliate Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. He is the head of the Combinatorial Synthesis Lab at the University of Maryland. A major focus of his combinatorial exploration and optimization is magnetic and multiferroic materials. He has previously utilized the combinatorial strategy to discover new compositions of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive materials, piezoelectric materials, permanent magnets, etc. His research interests also include multilayer thin film devices and scanning probe microscopy. He won the Invention of the Year Award at the University of Maryland in 2010 for a novel solid state cooling technology. Takeuchi is an APS Fellow.
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Bokor is the National Semiconductor Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. In 2012, he was named Associate Dean for Research in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. From 2004 until 2012, Prof. Bokor held a joint appointment as Deputy Director for Science at the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale science research center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL). He currently holds a joint appointment as Senior Scientist in the Materials Science Division at LBNL. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. From 1980 to 1993, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he did research on a variety of topics in laser science, as well as semiconductor physics and technology, and held several management positions. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1993. His current research activities include nanomagnetics/spintronics, carbon nanotube and graphene electronics, nanophotonics, novel techniques for nanofabrication, quantum information processing, and nano-electromechanical systems. He is a fellow of IEEE, APS, and OSA.
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- Regents Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Texas
Dr. Kelber is a Regents Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Texas. Prior to joining UNT in 1990, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. From 2010-2014 Prof. Kelber was the Director of the Center for Electronic Materials Processing and Integration, and SRC Center. Prof. Kelber's group focuses on the surface chemistries of thin film nucleation and growth. Deposition methods include molecular beam epitaxy, magnetron sputter deposition, atomic layer deposition and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. This work has received three Inventor Recognition awards from the SRC, as well as the Dougherty award from the Texas ACS and the Dekker scholar award from UNT. Much of this effort has involved the direct growth of graphene and other 2D materials on appropriate substrates for device applications, and has involved collaboration with the Dowben and Binek groups who are also part of CSPIN. His group has shown that graphene can be grown directly on certain dielectric substrates, even without close lattice matching. These substrates include BN [1], MgO(111) [2-4] , and Co3O4(111) [5, 6]. More recently, the layer-by-layer growth of h-BN(0001) multilayers on Co(0001) has been demonstrated
K. Pi, K. M. McCreary, W. Bao, W. Han, Y. F. Chiang, Y. Li, S.W. Tsai, C. N. Lau, and R. K. Kawakami, "Electronic doping and scattering by transition metals on graphene," Phys. Rev. B 80, 075406 (2009).
Kang L. Wang received his BS (1964) degree from National Cheng Kung University and his MS (1966) and PhD (1970) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1970 to 1972 he was an Assistant Professor at MIT. From 1972 to 1979, he worked at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center as a physicist/engineer. In 1979 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is a Distinguished Professor. He served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA from 1993 to 1996. His research activities include semiconductor nano-devices, nano-technology, self-assembled growth of quantum structures and cooperative assembly of quantum dot arrays by Si-based Molecular Beam Epitaxy, quantum structures and devices; Nano-epitaxy of hetero-structures; Spintronic materials and devices; Electron spin and coherence properties of SiGe and InAs quantum structures for implementation of spin-based quantum information processing; microwave devices. He was the inventor of the strained-layer MOSFET, quantum SRAM cell, and band-aligned superlattices. He has held more than 20 patents and published over 600 papers. He has received numerous awards, including the IBM Faculty Award; Guggenheim Fellow; IEEE Fellow; TSMC Honor Lectureship Award; Honoris Causa at Politechnico University, Torino, Italy; Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Awards; European Material Research Society Meeting Best paper award; and the Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Achievement Award.
Dr. Roy is the Edward G. Tiedemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where he joined the faculty in 1993. He was previously with the Semiconductor Process and Design Center of Texas Instruments, Dallas, where he worked on FPGA architecture development and low-power circuit design. He received his Ph.D. degree from the electrical and computer engineering department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. Dr. Roy received the 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, the SRC Inventors Award, the Purdue College of Engineering Research Excellence Award, and the 2010 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. His research interests include spintronics, device-circuit co-design for nano-scale silicon and non-silicon technologies, low-power electronics for portable computing and wireless communications, and new computing models enabled by emerging technologies. Dr. Roy has published more than 600 papers in refereed journals and conferences, holds 15 patents, graduated 56 Ph.D. students, and is co-author of two books on low power CMOS VLSI design.
Dr. Bartels is a Professor of Chemistry and Graduate Advisor of Materials Science and Engineering, at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). From 2000-2006, he was an assistant professor at UCR, and was promoted to associated professor in 2006 and full professor in 2010. He performed his post-doctoral research at Columbia University and the Paul Drude Inst. of. Solid State Electronics in Berlin, Germany. His postdoctoral advisors were T. F. Heinz (1998-2000), and Klaus Ploog (1997-1998). He received the Ph.D. in Physics, from Free University Berlin, under the supervision of K.H. Rieder (1995-1997). Dr. Bartels has made numerous pioneering and innovative contributions including the first demonstration of low temperature MoS 2 growth on copper [1,2]; controlled growth of other MoS x structures [3]; various contribution to control of adsorbate dynamics and ordering [4-6], understanding of electronic effects in monolayer confinement [7-9].
Job Titles:
- Professor of Physics at the University of Texas
Maxim Tsoi is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. A graduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (B.S. 1993; M.S. 1995) and Konstanz University, Germany (Ph.D. 1998), Dr. Tsoi joined the UT faculty in 2003, after serving as a postdoctoral member of the technical staff at IBM Almaden Research Center, Michigan State University, and the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laborotory of Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. His research interests include conduction electron/interface interactions, spin-polarized transport in mesoscopic structures, nanomagnetism and spintronics. Dr. Tsoi is a pioneer of experimental studies of Spin-Transfer Torque (STT). He was the first to demonstrate STT phenomenon in experiments with magnetic multilayers [1]. His point-contact experiments with microwaves provided the first evidence of STT nano-oscillators [2]. His experiments with exchange-biased spin valves [3] gave the first evidence of STT in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials and can be taken as the first step towards all-AFM spintronics. Dr. Tsoi is a recipient of the "Ragnar Holm Plaquette" awarded by the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2002) and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006).
Job Titles:
- Director of the Optical Science
Dr. Flatté is the Director of the Optical Science and Technology Center and is the F. Wendell Miller Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa. He received the BA in Physics from Harvard University in 1998, and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1992. His postdoctoral work was performed at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, and the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He has four U.S. patents, has edited one book and has published seven book chapters, five reviews and over 150 papers. His expertise includes the theory of spin currents [1-4] and spin relaxation [5] in semiconductors, g-tensors, domain-wall motion and spin transport across domain walls [6]. Dr. Flatté also developed the theory of spin packet motion in the presence of drift fields [1-2], performed the first quantitatively-accurate calculations of spin coherence times in III-V semiconductor heterostructures [5], invented several novel spin transistor frameworks
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Physics
Dr. Mryasov is an Associate Professor of Physics and Graduate Advisor of Materials Science and Engineering Tri-Campus Program at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (UAT). From 2001-2009, he was Principal Research Engineer at Seagate Technology Research Center. From 1999-2001 he held joint appointment of Research Engineer-III/Technical Staff at UC Berkeley/Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore). He performed his post-doctoral research at Northwestern university in the group of Professor Arthur Freeman (1994-1999). He received the Ph.D. in Physics and Math from Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993, under the supervision of Prof. A.I. Lichtenstein and Prof. V. I. Gubanov (1989-1993). Dr. Mryasov has been awarded by the Irish Science Foundation with the C. T. Walton Fellowship grant and Technology achievement award from Seagate Technology LLC. Dr. Mryasov has pioneering and innovative contributions in the field of novel CPP-GMR heterostructures with high spin polarization Heusler alloys [1]; transparent conductors [2]; constrained density functional theory (CDFT) for magnetic excitations [3]; theory of magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) [4,5]; and beyond DFT-LDA theory of metal/insulator interface states [6].
P. Li, W. Qian, and D. J. Lilja, "A stochastic reconfigurable architecture for fault-tolerant computation with sequential logic," IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), September, 2012.
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- Center Co - Director
- Co - Leader )
- Professor of Physics
Dr. Crowell is a Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Crowell received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1994. His employment history includes serving as a postdoctoral associate at CNRS Grenoble, France for 1993-1995, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1995-1997. Dr. Crowell jointed the University of Minnesota in 1997. Dr. Crowell has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2008. Dr. Crowell is an expert on spin dynamics and transport in metals and semiconductors and has written over 70 refereed publications. He pioneered the development of time-resolved Kerr microscopy as a tool for spin wave spectroscopy [1,2]. His work with Chris Palmstrøm on hybrid ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures has included the first demonstration of spin injection into semiconductors from a Heusler alloy [3] and a perpendicular anisotropy material [4]. In extending this work to device physics, they have demonstrated the first completely functional FM/SC/FM lateral spin valve and the first completely electrical measurement of the direct spin Hall effect in n-GaAs [5-7].
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- Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin
Dr. Voyles is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was an Assistant Professor from 2002-2009. He previously was a post-doc at Bell Labs, Murray Hill NJ. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and B.A. in physics from Oberlin College. He has received an NSF CAREER award and best paper awards from the Microscopy Society of America. His pioneering contributions include the demonstration of the first images of single impurity atoms inside a host crystal using Z-contrast STEM [1], the exploration of the scattering physics behind such images [2,3], and the application of those images to detection of new point defect / dopant complexes in Si [4]. He has extended that work into compound semiconductors [5] and recently developed sub-picometer precision STEM imaging [6]. Dr. Voyles has also used electron nanodiffraction for studying nanometer scale structural order in glasses [7-9].
Peter Dowben is a Charles Bessey Professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska (UNL). From 1984-1990 he was Assistant Professor of Physics at Syracuse University, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. He moved to the University of Nebraska in 1993 and was promoted to Professor of Physics in 1995, Research Professor of Chemistry in 1994, becoming a Charles Bessey Professor 2002. He performed his post-doctoral research as a scientific staff member at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany under Professor Michael Grunze. He received this Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, under the direction of Dr. Lionel Clarke. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, twice recipient of UNL's Engineering and Technology Multidisciplinary Research Award. Peter Dowben has pioneered resonant photoemission as a means of investigating metallicity, demonstrating the surface nonmetal to metal transition [1,2], and pioneered angle resolved XPS for the study of boundary segregation [3]. He has discovered or demonstrated many novel surface effects including the surface ferroelectric transition [4,5], and together with Christian Binek, demonstrated boundary magnetization in magneto-electrics [6,7] and contributing to advances in voltage controlled devices [8,9]. He has published over 500 papers, several books and 15 patents with over 9000 citations and has an h-index of 43.
Jian-Ping Wang is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a member of the graduate faculty in Physics, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD degree in 1995 from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he performed research on nanomagnetism. He established and managed the Magnetic Media and Materials program at Data Storage Institute, Singapore, as the founding program manager, from 1998 to 2002. He joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Minnesota in 2002 and was promoted to full professor in 2009. He is the associate director of the Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies (MINT) at the University of Minnesota. He received the information storage industry consortium (INSIC) technical award in 2006 for his pioneering work in exchange coupled composite magnetic media and the outstanding professor award for his contribution to undergraduate teaching in 2010. He has authored and co-authored more than 210 publications in peer-reviewed top journals and conference proceedings and holds 17 patents. He has been performing pioneering research on exchange coupled composite perpendicular media, perpendicular spintronic devices and magnetic tunnel junction based memory, logic and computation devices. His current research programs focus on searching, fabricating and fundamentally understanding novel nanoscale magnetic and spintronic materials and devices.
Professor Ramesh graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph. D. in 1987. He returned to Berkeley in 2004 and is currently the Purnendu Chatterjee Chair Professor in Materials Science and Physics. Prior to that he was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland College Park. From 1989-1995, at Bellcore, he initiated research in several key areas of oxide electronics, including ferroelectric nonvolatile memories. His landmark contributions in ferroelectrics came through the recognition that conducting oxide electrodes are the solution to the problem of polarization fatigue, which for 30 years, remained an enigma and unsolved problem. In 1994, in collaboration with S. Jin (Lucent Technologies), he initiated research into manganite thin films and they coined the term, Colossal Magnetoresistive (CMR) Oxides.
At Berkeley, he continues to pursue key scientific and technological problems in complex multifunctional oxide thin films, nanostructures and heterostructures. His group demonstrated the existence of a large ferroelectric polarization in multiferroic BiFeO3 films, in agreement with first principle predictions; they also demonstrated electric field control of antiferromagnetism as well as ferromagnetism, a critical step towards the next generation of storage and spintronics devices that are completely electric field controlled. His current research interests include thermoelectric and photovoltaic energy conversion in complex oxide heterostructures. He has published extensively on the synthesis and materials physics of complex oxide materials and his work is highly cited (over 35000 citations, H-factor =85).
He received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize and Fellowship to the American Physical Society (2001). In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as the David Adler Lectureship of the American Physical Society. In 2007, he was awarded the Materials Research Society David Turnbull Lectureship Award, in 2009, he was elected Fellow of MRS and is the recipient of the 2010 APS McGroddy New Materials Prize. From December 2010 to August 2012 he served as the Founding Director of the SunShot Initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy, overseeing and coordinate the R&D activities of the U.S. Solar Program. In 2011, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. From July 2013 to August 2014 he served as the Deputy Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In September 2014, he returned to Berkeley and LBNL as the Associate Lab Director for Energy Technologies.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota
Dr. Victora is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is also Director of the Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies (MINT), an industrially funded center for research in data storage. Dr. Victora earned B.S. degrees in Physics and Math from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. After receiving his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1985, he held research positions at Kodak Research Laboratories until joining academia in 1998. He has several technical contributions used widely within commercial hard disk drives, including Exchange Coupled Composite Media [1-3] that enabled a large increase in areal density. Other contributions include a widely used scaling law [4] that relates magnetic switching fields to measurement times and calculations for magnetic anisotropy [5,6]. Much of his theoretical work on magnetic damping in thin films has been prominently published [7-9]. Most recently, he has developed a spin scattering theory to accurately describe spin torque and magnetoresistance when the ferromagnetic layers are not collinear [9,10] or defective [11,12]. He is one of only two researchers to have twice received the Technical Achievement Award of the Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC). He received the 2014 Achievement Award of the IEEE Magnetics Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Physical Society.
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- Leader
- the Ohio State Univ. Leader, Theme 2
Dr. Sapatnekar currently is the Henle Chair in ECE and the Distinguished McKnight University Professorship at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, seven best paper awards at various conferences, and the SRC Technical Excellence award. He is a fellow of the IEEE. He served on the Executive Committee of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) from 2005-2011, including as General Chair in 2010, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on CAD. His research interests are in the area of design automation of integrated systems, an area in which he has published widely.
Dr. Majetich is a Physics Professor at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in magnetic nanoparticles and nanostructures, including both materials preparation and characterization, for potential applications in data storage media, biomedicine, high frequency inductors, permanent magnets, and magnetic refrigeration. She has authored over 100 papers and has three patents. She has received a National Young Investigator Award from the US National Science Foundation for her work, was a 2007 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Her previous work most relevant to the FCRP proposal is in the development of a nanomasking process for pattern transfer into magnetic multilayer films, and the use of conductive atomic force microscopy probes to measure magnetoresistance in individual nanopillars.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Sayeef Salahuddin is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the interdisciplinary field of electronic transport in nanostructures currently focusing on novel electronic and spintronic devices for low power logic and memory applications. Salahuddin received a number of awards including the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award, the Young Investigator Awards from the AFOSR and the ARO and best paper awards from IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and from the VLSI-TSA conference. He is on the editorial board of IEEE Electron Devices Letters and currently chairs the Electron Devices Society committee on Nanotechnology.
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- Leader
- Center Co - Director
- Professor
Steven J. Koester is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Koester received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1997 to 2010 he was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and made significant contributions to the development of strained Si and SiGe MOSFETs [1-2], Ge photodetectors [3] and III-V MOSFETs [4]. From 2006-2010 he served as manager of Exploratory Technology at IBM Research where his team investigated advanced devices and integration concepts for use in future generations of microprocessor technology [5-7]. Since joining the University of Minnesota in 2010, his research has focused on novel device concepts, with an emphasis on graphene devices [8-9]. He currently is collaborating with Jian-Ping Wang, Chris Kim, and Paul Crowell to investigate spin-based logic using graphene interconnects, and has demonstrated a process to transfer graphene onto patterned substrates [8-9], which has advantages for integration with magnetic materials, particularly MTJs. Dr. Koester has authored or co-authored over 150 technical publications and conference presentations, 3 book chapters, edited 6 volumes, and holds 36 United States patents. He is a senior member of IEEE and is an associate editor for IEEE Electron Device Letters.
Su-Yang Xu et al., "Hedgehog spin texture and Berry's phase tuning in a magnetic topological insulator," Nature Physics 8, 616 (2012).
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical
Tony Low is an Assistant Professor of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Prior to this, Low worked as an in-house theorist in various experimental groups at Columbia University, Yale University and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research. While at IBM, from 2011-2014, Low served as an industry liaison to various Universities under the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative with the goal of finding the next electronics switch. Low's interests lie in the theory and modeling of nano-materials and nano-devices. Low received a number of awards including the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper, IBM Invention Award, Singapore Millennium Fellowship, and the IEEE Electron Device Society Fellowship.
W. Qian, X. Li, M. D. Riedel, K. Bazargan, and David J. Lilja, "An architecture for fault-tolerant computation with stochastic logic," IEEE Trans. Comput. 60, 93 (2011).
Job Titles:
- Professor of Physics at the University of Alabama
Dr. Butler is a Professor of Physics at the University of Alabama. His previous leadership experience includes serving as the director of the Center for Materials for Information Technology, at the University of Alabama from 2001-2010, and as director of an NSF Materials Science and Engineering Center from 2001-2010. He was also the leader of the theory group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) from 1985-2001, and served as a member of the research staff at ORNL from 1972-2001. He was also an Assistant Professor at Auburn University from 1969-1972. His awards include the USDOE award for Outstanding Research, the USDOE award for Outstanding Sustained Research, and the National Institute for Materials Science Award for prediction/invention of symmetry-based spin filter effect [1]. This effect forms the basis of most of the spintronics devices in use today. He has also developed approaches to the design of half-metallic heterostructures which makes it possible to engineer materials with tunable characteristic properties [2-3] and has made contributions to the modeling of perpendicular spin-torque devices [4-6]. His industry interactions include projects with Seagate, Western Digital, Fujitsu, Grandis, and Samsung.
Job Titles:
- Professor in the Department of Computer Science
X. Sharon Hu is a professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering and a concurrent professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She was the Associate Dean of the Graduate School between 2013 and 2015. She has published more than 250 papers and holds 4 U.S. patents. She received the NSF Career Award, the Best Paper Award from the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2001 and from the IEEE Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures in 2009. One of her papers was selected as The Most Influential Papers of 10 Years by Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2007. She is the Program Chair of DAC in 2016 and TPC Co-Chair of DAC 2014 and 2015. She also served as Associate Editor for several IEEE and ACM journals. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Z. Yang, Y. Li, D. C. Look, H. M. Zhou, W. V. Chen, R. K. Kawakami, P. K. L. Yu, and J. L. Liu, "Thermal annealing effect on spin coherence in ZnO single crystals," J. Appl. Phys. 110, 016101 (2011).