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2019 Bronze Medal Award

Grutter

Grutter

AWARD CITATION

Grutter is recognized for elucidating the mechanisms by which ferromagnetic order in a magnetic topological insulator can be stabilized and manipulated via interfacial coupling with an antiferromagnet. Through a series of challenging and exceptionally precise neutron scattering measurements, Grutter identified the interfacial spin configuration that enhances technologically critical magnetic properties, the most important of which is a drastic increase in the temperature at which ferromagnetism can be sustained in the topological insulator.

INDIVIDUAL AWARD

Alexander Grutter

Physicist
NIST Center for Neutron Research
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