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Daniel Gopman (Fed)

Physicist

Dr. Daniel B. Gopman is a Staff Physicist in the Materials Science and Engineering Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from New York University, where he researched the switching properties of nanostructured spintronic devices. Dr. Gopman currently leads the Magnetic Thin Films project, focusing on advancing measurement science and technology for magnetic thin film multilayers and patterned magnetic devices. He has made significant contributions to the field of spintronics, including the development of novel magnetic materials and devices, and has published numerous papers in top-tier scientific journals. Dr. Gopman is a founding organizer of the US Government Working Group on Magnetic Tunnel Junction technologies and a member of the IEEE Magnetics Society. He has also served as a reviewer for several international scientific journals and has received several awards for his work.

Patents

Pb(ZrxTi1-x)3 (PZT) / Cobalt-Nickel Heterostructure with Voltage-Tuneable Perpendicular Magnetization, Patent No. 9,952,293

Susceptometer and process for determining magnetic susceptibility, Patent No. 9,714,991

Projects 

High Speed Metrology for Magnetoelectronic Devices and Models

News

Zero Field Switching (ZFS) Effect in a Nanomagnetic Device

University of Minnesota Team Receives $3.1 Million Federal Grant to Improve Electronics

University of Minnesota: Researchers Create Spintronics Manufacturing Process That Could Revolutionize Electronics Industry

Awards

2023 IEEE Senior Member Status

2022 George Abraham Outstanding Paper Award for "Advanced Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for Computation in Random Access Memory," presented at the Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference 

2021 NIST Technology Maturation Award for "Ultrahigh Density in Memory Compute Chips using Advanced Magnetic Memory Devices"

2015 NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Outstanding Post-doc Accolade

2014 NIST NRC Post-doctoral Associateship

2005 Boren National Security Education Program Scholarship (Novosibirsk, Russia)

News

Publications

Reduction-Induced Magnetic Behavior in LaFeO3-δ Thin Films

Author(s)
Nathan Arndt, Eitan Hershkovitz, Labdhi Shah, Kristoffer Kjaernes, Chao-Yao Yang, Purnima Balakrishnan, Mohammed Shariff, Shaun Tauro, Daniel Gopman, Brian Kirby, Alexander Grutter, Thomas Tybell, Honggyu Kim, Ryan Need
The effect of oxygen reduction on the magnetic properties of LaFeO3−δ (LFO) thin films was studied to better understand the viability of LFO as a candidate for

Data and Software Publications

Created July 30, 2019, Updated November 19, 2025
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