Spintronics is a relatively new branch of electronics in which both electron spin and charge are manipulated to acquire a desired result. Applications of spin are numerous, especially with quantum computation. Because Shor's polynomial time algorithm would be theoretically able to factor very large numbers on a quantum computer, quantum computation drew a great deal of attention due to the importance of such an ability in cryptography.  Spintronics is now becoming very important in the realm of nanosystems.  As scaling is increased, spintronics and nanosystems will merge to build single electron transistors.

Check out the files below to learn more about the importance of spintronics.

 
In the summer of 2002 I worked at IBM in California with Dr. Risk and Bob Shelby on spintronics.  For more information about this, click here.


PHYSICS
Research Interests:

• Second harmonic generation studies in oxides, thin films and organics
• Electric control of magnetic structure
• Imaging of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic domains
• Exchange bias, coupling between antiferromagnets and ferromagnets
• Multifunctional materials with potential coupling with order parameters
• Piezoelectric force microscopy for the study of ferroelectric domains
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic dichroism
• Modeling of expected dichroic contrast for different magnetic behaviors
• Internal photoemission to study spin relaxation in GaAs