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Robert D. McMichael, Project Leader

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Robert McMichael is a Physicist in the Electron Physics Group in CNST. He received a B.S. in Engineering-Physics from Pacific Lutheran University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from The Ohio State University. He came to NIST on an NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, served on the research staff of the Metallurgy Division in the Materials Science and Engineering Lab and then joined CNST in 2007. Bob’s research at NIST has touched on a broad spectrum of phenomena in magnetic thin films and nanomaterials, but remains centered on micromagnetics and magnetization dynamics in magnetic thin films. He has over 120 peer-reviewed publications, and he is a frequent invited speaker at international meetings. Bob has helped organize numerous international conferences and he serves on the AdCom of the IEEE Magnetics Society. Bob was selected as a IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2004, and he is a recipient of NIST’s Samuel Wesley Stratton Award and the Bronze Medal award from the Department of Commerce.



Selected Publications:

  • Variation of thin film edge magnetic properties with patterning process conditions in Ni80Fe20 stripes, B. B. Maranville, R. D. McMichael and D. W. Abraham, Applied Physics Letters, 90(23), 232504 (2007).
  • Edge saturation fields and dynamic edge modes in ideal and nonideal magnetic film edges, R. D. McMichael and B. B. Maranville, Physical Review B, 74(2), 024424 (2006).
  • Magnetic normal modes of nanoelements, R. D. McMichael and M. D. Stiles, Journal of Applied Physics, 97(10), 10J901 (2005).
  • A mean-field model of extrinsic line broadening in ferromagnetic resonance, R. D. McMichael, Journal of Applied Physics, 103(7), 07B114 (2008).
  • Effect of 3d, 4d, and 5d transition metal doping on damping in Permalloy thin films, J. O. Rantschler, R. D. McMichael, A. Castillo, A. J. Shapiro, W. F. Egelhoff Jr., B. B. Maranville, D. Pulugurtha, and A. P. Chen, Journal of Applied Physics, 101(3), 033911 (2007).
  • Localized ferromagnetic resonance in inhomogeneous thin films, R. D. McMichael, D. J. Twisselmann and A. Kunz, Physical Review Letters, 90(22), 227601 (2003).

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