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William Borders, Advait Madhavan, Matthew Daniels, Vasileia Georgiou, Martin Lueker-Boden, Tiffany Santos, Patrick Braganca, Mark Stiles, Jabez J. McClelland, Brian Hoskins
Neural networks are increasing in scale and sophistication, catalyzing the need for efficient hardware. An inevitability when transferring neural networks to hardware is that non-idealities impact performance. Hardware-aware training, where non-idealities
Thinh Bui, Mark-Alexander Henn, Weston L. Tew, Megan Catterton, Solomon I. Woods
Advances in instrumentation and tracer materials are still required to enable sensitive and accurate 3D temperature monitoring by magnetic particle imaging. We have developed a magnetic particle imaging instrument to observe temperature variations using
As a promising alternative to the mainstream CoFeB/MgO system with interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), L10-FePd and its synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) structure with large crystalline PMA can support spintronic devices with sufficient
Nanna Hagstrom, Rahul Jangid, F. N. U. Meera, Diego Turenne, Jeffrey Brock, Erik Lamb, Boyan Stoychev, Justine Schlappa, Natalia Gerasimova, Benjamin Van Kuiken, Rafael Gort, Laurent Mercadier, Loic Le Guyader, Andrey Samartsev, Andreas Scherz, Giuseppe Mercurio, Hermann Durr, Alexander Reid, Monika Arora, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw, Emmanuelle Jal, Eric Fullerton, Mark Keller, Roopali Kukreja, Stefano Bonetti, Thomas J. Silva, Ezio Iacocca
Symmetry is a powerful concept in physics, but its applicability to far-from-equilibrium states is still being understood. Recent attention has focused on how far-from-equilibrium states lead to spontaneous symmetry breaking. Conversely, ultrafast optical
Pravin Khanal, Bowei Zhou, Magda Andrade, Yanliu Dang, Albert Davydov, Ali Habiboglu, Jonah Saidian, Adam Laurie, Jian-Ping Wang, Daniel Gopman, Weigang Wang
Future generations of magnetic random access memory demand magnetic tunnel junctions that can provide simultaneously high magnetoresistance, strong retention, low switching energy and small cell size below 10nm. Here we study perpendicular magnetic tunnel
Sebastian Engmann, Emily Bittle, Lee J. Richter, Rawad Hallani, John Anthony, David J. Gundlach
Magneto electroluminescence (MEL) is emerging as a powerful tool for the study of spin dynamics in emitting devices. The shape of the MEL response is typically used to draw qualitative inference on the dominant process (singlet fission or triplet fusion)
Ian Haygood, Matthew Pufall, Eric R. Edwards, Justin Shaw, William Rippard
We report on the strong coupling between a metallic ferromagnetic Fe75Co25 thin-film patterned element and a range of superconducting Nb half-wavelength co-planar waveguide (CPW) resonators. By varying the volume of the ferromagnet we demonstrate that the
T. Hula, K. Schultheiss, A. Budzakov, L. Korber, M. Bejarano, L. Flacke, L. Liensberger, M. Weiler, Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, J. Fassbender, H. Schultheiss
We report on the impact of nonlinear four-magnon scattering on magnon transport in microstructured Co 25Fe 75 waveguides with low magnetic damping. We determine the magnon propagation length with microfocused Brillouin light scattering over a broad range
Hyuk-Jae Jang, Oleg A. Kirillov, John S. Suehle, Curt A. Richter
Understanding the electronic structure of organic/molecular semiconductors and the energetics at their interfaces with metals is critical for organic-based electronics applications. Here we demonstrate that the energetics at metal/molecule interfaces can
Vivek P. Amin, Junwen Li, Mark D. Stiles, Paul M. Haney
First principles calculations show that electric fields applied to ferromagnets generate spin currents flowing perpendicularly to the electric field. Reduced symmetry in these ferromagnets enables a wide variety of such spin currents. However, the total
Hyuk-Jae Jang, Emily Bittle, Qin Zhang, Adam Biacchi, Curt A. Richter, David J. Gundlach
Here, we present the electrical detection of singlet fission in tetracene by using a field- effect transistor (FET). Singlet fission is a photo-induced spin-dependent process yielding two triplet excitons from the absorption of a single photon. , In this
Aruna N. Ramanayaka, Ke Tang, Joseph Hagmann, Hyun S. Kim, Curt A. Richter, Joshua M. Pomeroy
Elimination of unpaired nuclear spins can result in low error rates for quantum computation; therefore, isotopically enriched 28Si is regarded as an ideal environment for quantum information processing devices. Using mass selected ion beam deposition
Wonil Chung, Mengwei Si, Pragya Shrestha, Jason Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Peide Ye
In this work, ultrafast pulses with pulse widths ranging from 100 ps to seconds were applied on the gate of Ge ferroelectric (FE) nanowire (NW) pFETs with FE Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 (HZO) gate dielectric exhibiting steep subthreshold slope (SS) below 60 mV/dec bi
Burm Baek, Michael L. Schneider, Matthew R. Pufall, William H. Rippard
We investigate the supercurrent transport characteristics of Ni-barrier Josephson junctions with various barrier multilayer structures. Our device fabrication and magneto-electrical measurement methods provide high enough statistics and rigor necessary for
Adrian Popescu, Pablo Rodrigues-Lopez, Paul M. Haney, Lilia M. Woods
Materials exhibiting controllable magnetic phase transitions are currently in demand for many spintronics applications. Here we investigate from first principles the electronic structure and intrinsic anomalous Hall, spin Hall and anomalous Nernst response
Andy Berger, Eric R. Edwards, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw, Alexy D. Karenowska, Mathias Weiler, Thomas J. Silva
Phenomena that result from strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) at ferromagnet/normal metal (FM/NM) interfaces hold great promise for the development of efficient and scalable spintronic devices. SOC drives non-equilibrium spin-charge conversion, manifest as
Emily G. Bittle, Hyuk-Jae Jang, Qin Zhang, Curt A. Richter, David J. Gundlach
Organic semiconductors provide a unique set of properties that provide for the manufacture of large and flexible LED screens and photovoltaic arrays. In order to lower the operating voltages of organic LEDs (OLEDs) and improve efficiency above the Shockley
We study the optically induced torques on thin film ferromagnetic layers under excitation by circularly polarized light. We include Rashba spin-orbit coupling and assume an out-of-plane magnetization, and consider incident light with an in-plane component
Koji Sekiguchi, Seo-Won Lee, Hiroaki Sukegawa, Nana Sato, Se-Hyeok Oh, Robert McMichael, Kyung-Jin Lee
The information carrier of modern technologies is the electron charge whose transport inevitably generates Joule heating. Spin-wave, the collective precessional motion of electron spins, does not involve moving charges and thus alleviates Joule heating [1
Magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) is characterized by nonvolatility, low energy dissipation, high endurance (repeated writing), scalability to smaller dimensions, compatibility with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing, resistance
We study the circular photogalvanic effect in the organometal halide perovskite solar cell absorber CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_3$. The calculated photocurrent density is about $10^{-9}$ A/W, comparable to the previously studied quantum well and bulk Rashba systems
R R Sbiaa, Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, M Al Bahri, M Ranjbar, J. ?kerman, S. N. Piramanayagam
Multilayers of [Co/Ni(t)/Co/Pt]×8 with varying Ni thickness were investigated for possible use as a free layer in magnetic tunnel junctions and spintronics devices. The thickness t of the Ni sub-layer was varied from 0.3 nm to 0.9 nm and the resulting