Events

MATERIALS SCIENCE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
at JHU, April 15, 2005

This is a one-day symposium sponsored by the JHU MRSEC that provides an opportunity to showcase materials research at Hopkins to scientists and engineers from industry and national laboratories.

Workshop on Current Topics in Magnetoelectronics, Sept. 2003

Overview

The systems we are studying have potential impact in a wide range of technologies. For example, bismuth thin films offer the potential for field and current sensing, exchange coupling in FM/AF bilayers is a key component of GMR devices, half-metallic ferromagnets with high spin polarization are applicable for tunneling magnetoresistance and MRAM applications, and arrays of nanowires are of interest for field emitter arrays and high-density perpendicular recording. We have established collaborations with the following companies:

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center:
We have an extensive collaboration on the growth and properties of half-metallic ferromagnets and magnetic tunnel junctions.

Hitachi Global Storage:
We are collaborating with researchers at Hitachi on soft lithography for patterned media.

Seagate Technology Inc.:
We are working with researchers at Seagate to study the properties of new candidate materials for half-metallic ferromagnets.

Polysciences Inc.:
We are collaborating on potential applications of multifunctional magnetic nanowires for detecting biomolecules.