From kitchen magnets to computer disks, magnetism plays a central role in the technology of everyday life. It is also one of the pillars of condensed matter physics, and several modern topics of research, like high temperature superconductivity, molecular magnets, spintronics, and statistical field theory, involve the study of magnetism. Researchers at SFU study the fundamental properties of both bulk and nanostructured magnetic materials.
Present areas of study include:
Ferromagnet/semiconductor spintronics
(Heinrich, Kavanagh, Kirczenow).
Magnetic Tunneling Junctions (MTJ) using Fe/MgO/Fe(001)
structures (Heinrich).
Magnetic interfaces (Heinrich, Kavanagh, Crozier)
µSR and ßNMR studies of molecular magnets (Sonier)
Optical and Raman spectroscopy of magnetic materials
(Dodge, Irwin)
Bret
Heinrich
Karen
Kavanagh
George
Kirczenow
E. Daryl
Crozier
Jeff Sonier
Steve Dodge
J.C.
Irwin
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