Nebraska MRSEC Symposium October 19, 2010

136 Jorgensen Hall

  Morning Session Chair: Ralph Skomski
9:00 a.m.

The Search for New High Performance Permanent Magnets
William McCallum, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University

 
9:45 a.m.

Bit Patterned Media for High Density Magnetic Recording
Olav Hellwig, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA

 
10:30a.m. Coffee Break
   
11:00a.m.

The Mag-FET: Concept & Proof-of-Principle
Jonathan Bird, State University of New York at Buffalo

 
11:45 a.m.

Fundamentals of MR– RA scaling: TMR vs. GMR
Oleg Mryasov, University of Alabama

 
12:30 p.m. Lunch (Great Hall, J.S. Raikes School)
  Afternoon Session Chair: Christian Binek
2:00 p.m.

Tuning the Magnetic Phases of LaSrMnO3 by Digital Synthesis
Tiffany Santos, Argonne National Laboratory

 
2:45 p.m.

Electric-Field Switching of Magnetism in a Multiferroic: New Ideas and Materials
Craig Fennie, Cornell University

 
3:30 p.m.

Probing Spin Polarization of Ferromagnets with Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy
Boris Nadgorny, Wayne State University

 
4:15 p.m. Symposium Conclusion, coffee and cookies

 

Nebraska MRSEC Symposium October 19, 2010

 

Nebraska MRSEC Symposium October 19, 2010