Current Crew
Ostensibly in charge
Patrick R. LeClair (2005-present)
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Postdocs
Hideo Sato (2009-present)
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Project:Exchange interactions in epitaxial intermetallic systems.
Expertise:Thin film growth, structural characterization, magnetometry
Graduate Students
Manjit Pathak (2006-present)
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Project:Investigation of structural and magneto-transport properties of CrO2 thin films for spintronic devices.
Expertise:Thin film growth, lithography, magnetometry, transport measurementsXing Zhong (2009-present)
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Project:Oxide spintronics
Expertise:Thin film growth, lithography.Justin Kreil (Szulczewski group)
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Project:Organic spintronics
Expertise:Tunnel junction fabrication, inelastic tunneling spectroscopy.Amanda Glaze
Project:Development of novel K-12 physics labs
Expertise:Teaching!
Undergraduate Students
Tara Gernhardt / Noise measurements
Sarah Betzig / Noise measurements
Anthony Castro / Noise measurements
High School Students
********************************** <-->Joshua McDonald
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Nicholas Ragland
Project:All things arduino
Alumni
Graduate Students
Viswanathan Mohandoss (currently Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Mathijs van Schijndel (currently TU Eindhoven)
Paul Janssen (currently TU Eindhoven )
Weihao Xu (Szulczewski group; currently at Western Digital)
Undergraduate Students
Andrew Tuggle (currently UA) / thin film susceptometer
Dina Genkina (REU 2008; currently Columbia) / organic spintronics
Eric Stough (grad at UA) / noise measurements
Andrew Patterson / new intro PH labs
Ranbel Sun (REU 2007; currently MIT) / FMR
Joan Reichwien (REU 2007) / FMR
Hunter Adams (F08-S09) / audio electronics (pic 1)
Jonathan Kentros (F08) / audio electronics (pic 2)
Kyle Hughel (S09) / audio electronics (clip)
Matthew Ware (F08-S09; currently Cornell) / Magnetic ordering in epitaxial FePt
Eric Edwards (S09) / X-ray diffraction of magnetic superlattices
Abel Demisse (REU 2008) / organic spintronics
Recent UA Collaborators
Not meant to be exhaustive ... don’t feel slighted if I forgot you!Faculty
Gary Mankey
Arunava Gupta
Su Gupta
William Butler
Greg Szulczewski
Nitin Chopra
Tonya Klein
Tim Mewes
Claudia Mewes
Postdocs
Dipanjan Mazumdar
Vijay Sankar
Other
Julie Covin
Danny Whitcomb
Jason Kuykendall
Graduate Students
Xueyu Zhang (A. Gupta group)
Hunter Sims (W. Butler group)
Zeenath Tadisina (S. Gupta group)
Other Recent Associates
Also not meant to be exhaustive ...J.S. Moodera(MIT)
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Kota Murali (IBM India)
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R. Meservey (MIT)
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E. Goering (MPI Stuttgart)
P. Mani (Western Digital)
A. Schreyer, D. Lott (GKSS)
F. Klose (Australian Nuclear Science & Technology)
H. Ambaye, V. Lauter, H.M. Christen, B.C. Sales (ORNL)
M. Wolff (U. Bochum)
D. Heiman (Northeastern)
E.Y. Tsymbal (Nebraska)
J.G. Lu (U.C. Irvine)
B. Koopmans, H.J.M. Swagten (Eindhoven)
M. Muenzenberg (Goettingen)
A. Thomas (Bielefeld)
S. Pennycook and M. Varela (ORNL)
G. Xiao (Brown)
K. Tsunekawa and D.D. Djayaprawira (Canon Anelva)
A. Punnoose, K.M. Reddy, B.I. Kim, J.O. Holmes (Boise State)
B. Satpati (Institute of Physics, Bhuvaneswar)
S.J. Joo, J.H. Lee, K. Rhie (KIST, Korea and Korea University)
T.-S. Kim (Korea University)
B.C. Lee (Inha University, Incheon, Korea)
J.-S. Lee, J.-H. Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology)