The Magnetism Group at Harvey Mudd College

"We may not be very smart but we can lift heavy things!"

 

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Research Interests:

 

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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The People:

 

 

 

Jim Eckert

Professor of Physics

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail, web page

 

Patti Sparks

Professor of Physics

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail

 

Chih-Yung Chen

Associate Professor of Physics

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail

Caitlin Furjanic

Senior Physics Major

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail

 

Dariya Draganova

Senior Physics Major

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail

 

Sam Eisenberg

Senior Physics Major

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail

 

Jun Park

Senior Physics Major

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail

 

Helen Fitzmaurice

Junior Physics Major

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail

 

David Stachnik

Junior Physics Major

Harvey Mudd College

e-mail

Whitney Buchanan

Group survivor '07

Oregon State

e-mail

Matt Reed

Group survivor '07

Yale

e-mail

Stephanie Moyerman

Group survivor '06

UCSD

e-mail

Will Gannett

Group survivor '06

Berkeley

e-mail

Karen Shakespear

Group survivor '06

Baking in Boston

e-mail

Jason Leonard

Group survivor '06

UCSD

e-mail

Seneca Harberger

Group survivor '05

Teaching High School

e-mail

Katy Perdue

Group survivor '05

Off to grad school with her NSF Graduate Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering

e-mail

Darci Snowden

Group survivor '04

 University of Washington

e-mail

Joe Checkelsky

Group survivor '04

Princeton

e-mail

Adele Tamboli

Group survivor '04

UCSB

e-mail

Zoe Boekelheide

Group survivor '04

Berkeley

e-mail

Nate Stern

Group survivor '03

UCSB

e-mail

 

Dave Cooke

Group survivor '02

Berkeley

e-mail

David Mann

Group survivor '01

Ph.D. Stanford '06

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Updated 5-3-2007