The
Magnetism Group at Harvey Mudd College
"We may not be very smart but we can lift heavy things!"
Magnetic device technologies are playing an ever expanding role in our day to day lives. Magnetic storage dates from the 1930’s with the advent of tape recording and the recent high capacity computer hard drives are simply a variation on that same theme. However, the past few years has seen an explosion in the number and type of magnetic devices that have appeared on the scene. Position and location sensors, magnetic switching, and non-volatile computer memory based upon magnetoresistance have all come into common usage within recent years. This is the budding new field of spintronics, devices based upon manipulating the spin of the charge carriers.
Over the past few years we have been studying the effect of ultra thin antiferromagnetic films on the magnetic exchange bias in magnetic multilayer systems. We are looking at the onset and nature of the exchange coupling as the antiferromagnetic pinning layer evolves with thickness. This work is being carried out in collaboration with Matt Carey at the Hitachi Global Storage Technologies San Jose Research Center and with Julie Borchers at NIST Gaithersburg.
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Jim Eckert Professor of Physics Harvey Mudd College |
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Patti Sparks Professor of Physics Harvey Mudd College
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Chih-Yung Chen Associate Professor of Physics Harvey Mudd College |
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Caitlin Furjanic Senior Physics Major Harvey Mudd College
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Dariya Draganova Senior Physics Major Harvey Mudd College
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Sam Eisenberg Senior Physics Major Harvey Mudd College
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Jun Park Senior Physics Major Harvey Mudd College
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Helen Fitzmaurice Junior Physics Major Harvey Mudd College
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David Stachnik Junior Physics Major Harvey Mudd College |
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Whitney Buchanan Group survivor '07 Oregon State |
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Matt Reed Group survivor '07 Yale |
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Stephanie Moyerman Group survivor '06 UCSD |
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Will Gannett Group survivor '06
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Karen Shakespear Group survivor '06 Baking in Boston |
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Jason Leonard Group survivor '06 UCSD |
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Seneca Harberger Group survivor '05 Teaching High School |
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Katy Perdue Group survivor '05 Off to grad school with her NSF Graduate Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering |
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Darci Snowden Group survivor '04 University of Washingto |
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Joe Checkelsky Group survivor '04 Princeton |
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Adele Tamboli Group survivor '04 UCSB |
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Zoe Boekelheide Group survivor '04 Berkeley |
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Nate Stern Group survivor '03 UCSB
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Dave Cooke Group survivor '02 Berkeley |
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David Mann Group survivor '01 Ph.D. Stanford '06 |
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Updated 5-3-2007
