• Nanomagnetics
• Atomic scale characterization & fabrication
• Modeling nanostructures in mesoscopic environments
• Nanoscale measurement & fabrication using laser-controlled atoms
• Atom Optics
• Magneto-Optic Microscopy
• Magnetic Force Microscopy
• Nanoscale Physics
• SEMPA
• UHV STM
Projects of the Electron Physics Group
NANOMAGNETICS
Magnetic Imaging
Electron spin polarization determination from luminescence polarization
MFM/SEMPA comparison
Magneto-electronics and Spintronics
Spin torque induced domain wall motion
Sensors
Patterned Structures
Scaling
Arrays of Nano-rings
Microscopic magnetic devices
Magnetic Materials
Geomagnetism
Domain wall motion
Domains in granular GMR materials
Magnetic Multilayers Films and Surfaces
Stress-induced anisotropy
Co/GaAs spin reorientation
Fe/GaAs e-beam induced anisotropy
Oscillatory exchange coupling
Depth profiling magnetic multilayer domain structures
Hot electron spin valves
Magnetic Storage
Heads
Patterned media
Recording media
ATOMIC SCALE CHARACTERIZATION AND FABRICATION
Future Electronics and Spintronics
Graphene
Adatom Induced 2DEG in InAs
Spin Dependent Structure of Mn in GaAs
Atom Manipulation
Electronically Induced Atom Motion in CoCu
n
Nanostructures
Atom Dynamics in Atom Manipulation
Autonomous Atom Assembly
Electronic Properties of Nanostructures
Effect of Electronic Structure on the Lengths of Atomic Chains
Spectroscopy of Quantized States in Finite Atomic Chains
Electronic Properties of 1-d, 2-d, and 3-d Cs Structures on GaAs(110)
Electronic Properties of Fe Clusters on GaAs(110)
Superconductivity
Vortex Lattice Structural Transitions in a Type-II Superconductor
Epitaxial Growth
Pattern Formation in Fe on Fe homoepitaxy
Scaling of Island Size Distributions in Fe Growth
Growth of Fe on Fe(001) and Correlation with RHEED
Growth of Fe on Au(111)
Correlation of Microstructure and Magnetism
Insight into Non-Collinear Exchange Coupling of Fe/Mn/Fe from STM
Alloying at the Cr/Fe Interface
Influence of Cr Thickness Fluctuation in Fe/Cr/Fe
Spin Dependence in SPM Measurements
Polarized light emission from the Metal-Metal STM junction
Tunneling Spectroscopy of Fe and Cr(001) Surface States
NANOSCALE MEASUREMENT AND FABRICATION USING LASER-CONTROLLED ATOMS
Single-atom Based Metrology
Optical detection of single rare-earth dopants
Novel Sources for Focused-ion Beams
Magneto-optical trap-based source (MOTIS)
Laser Cooling of Rare-Earth Atoms
Erbium magneto-optical trap
Natural Linewidth of the 401-nm Laser-Cooling Transition in Erbium
Laser cooling transitions in erbium
Deterministic Control of Single Atoms
A Fast Determinist Source of Single Cr Atoms
Magneto-optical Trapping of Cr Atoms
Nanofabrication via Atom Optics
Surface Growth in Laser-Focused Atomic Deposition
Laser Collimation of a Chromium Beam
Nanostructure fabrication by reactive-ion etching of laser-focused chromium on silicon
Fabrication of Magnetic Nanowires
Minimizing feature width in atom-optically fabricated Cr nanostructures
Atom lithography with metastable atoms and H-passivated Si
Nanofabrication of chromium lines by laser-focused atomic deposition
Nanofabrication of a two-dimensional array of chromium "dots"
Lambda/8 spatial frequency in the distribution of laser-focused atoms
Lithography with metastable rare gas atoms
Atom-optical calculations
Chromium lines as a nanoscale length standard
Optical Pumping in Chromium
MODELING NANOSTRUCTURES IN MESOSCOPIC ENVIRONMENTS
Transport in Magnetic Nanostructures
Theory of spin-transfer torques in magnetic nanostructures
Theory of current induced domain wall motion
Theory of transport in magnetic ultrathin films
Theory for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Calculations of graphene surface and interface structures
Effect of Electronic Structure on the Lengths of Atomic Chains
Vortex Lattice Structural Transitions in a Type-II Superconductor
Theory of magnetic surface microscopy
Pattern formation in Fe on Fe homoepitaxy
Theory of Magnetism
Magentization damping
Theory of magnetocrystalline anisotropy
Magnetic Multilayers
Theory of exchange bias
Theory of oscillatory exchange coupling in magnetic multilayers
Theory of spin dependent reflection from interfaces
Miscellaneous
Theory of hysteresis in magnetic ultrathin films
Quantitative electron energy loss spectroscopy from core levels
Electron spin polarization determination from luminescence polarization
Online:
August 1995
Last updated:
February 2008
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