3rd International Conference on Spintronics Materials and Technology • June 21 - 23, 2010

Technical Program

Monday June 21
8:00-9:20 a.m.Registration
9:20-9:30 a.m.Introductory Remarks: D. Johnson and J.P. Leburton
Keynote address
9:30-10:15 a.m.S. Parkins, IBM: "Racetrack Memory: a current controlled domain-wall shift register".
10:15-10:35 a.m.Coffee break
Session: Spin Torques and Magnetic Wall Dynamics
10:35-11:10 a.m.M. Miron, U. A. Barcelona: “Rashba Spin-Orbit torques in ferromagnetic thin films” (invited) (PowerPoint)
11:10-11:45 a.m.Mathias Kläui, U. Konstanz,: “Current-induced magnetization dynamics”. (invited). (PDF)
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.Lunch break
Session: Hybrid Spintronic Materials and Devices
1:00-1:35 p.m.Y. Xu, U. York: “Metal-Semiconductor hybrid spintronic materials and devices” (invited) (PDF)
1:35-2:10 p.m.Li Li, Xiangyuan Cui, Simon P. Ringer and Rongkun Zheng, U. Sydney: “Microscopic Origin of the Magnetism Observed in the ZnO-based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors” (invited) (Presentation not available.)
2:10-2:35 p.m.John DeGrave, Andrew Schmitt, Jeremy Higgins, Song Jin, U. Wisconsin, Madison: “Silicon and Silicide Nanowires for Spintronics”.
2:35-3:00 p.mJim Sadler, Doug Szumski, Walther Schwarzacher, Richard Nichols , Kevin Stella, Mariano Fonticelli, Barbara Blum, Roberto Salvarezza, Guillermo Benitez, Physics Department, U. Bristol: “Octanethiol on Ni for Spintronic Applications”
3:00-3:20 p.m.Coffee break
Session: Magnetic Semiconductors
3:20-3:55 p.m.P. Koenraad, Eindhoven: “Single impurity manipulation and analysis in semiconductors by STM” (invited) (PDF)
3:55-4:30 p.m.J. Zhao, CAS, Beijing: "Magnetic properties of (Ga,Mn)As films & related nano-wires with higher Curie temperature" (invited) (PDF)
4:30-4:50 p.m.N Rangaraju, J A Peters, B W Wessels, Northwestern U.: “Magnetoamplification in an InMnAs based bipolar magnetic junction transistor”
4:50-5:10 p.m.J. A. Peters, N. Rangaraju, C. Feeser, and B. W. Wessels Northwestern U.: “Spin-dependent transport in p-InMnSb/n-InSb magnetic diodes”
 
Tuesday June 22
Session: Spintronic with quantum Dots
9:00-9:35 a.m.D. G. Austing, NRC, Ottawa: “High bias hyperfine interaction mechanism for two weakly coupled vertical quantum dots” (invited). (PowerPoint)
9:35-10:10 a.m.LX Zhang et al, UIUC and NWU: “Exchange engineering in quantum dots” (invited) (PowerPoint)
10:10-10:30 a.m.Coffee break
Session: Future trends
10:30-10:55 a.m.S. Wolfe, U. Virginia: “The Promise of Nano-magnetics and Spintronics for future Logic and Memory” (Presentation not available.)
10:55-11:20 a.m.Dmitriy Melnikov, Evgeny Katz and Vladimir Privman. Clarkson U., “Enzyme-based systems for information processing” (PowerPoint)
11:20-11:45 a.mD. Szumski, W. Schwarzacher, H. van Zalinge and R. Nichols, U. Liverpool: “Towards Single Molecule Spintronics” (PowerPoint)
11:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m.Y. G. Semenov, J. M. Zavada, and K. W. Kim, NCSU: “Electron Spin Relaxation in Carbon Nanotubes” (PowerPoint)
12:10-12:30 p.m.R. B. R. Adari, M. S. Murthy, S. Ganguly, and D. Saha I.T. Bombay: “Amplification of Optical Polarization in a Spin Laser”. (PowerPoint)
12:30-1:30 p.m.Lunch break
Session: Spin processes in semiconductors
1:30-2:05 p.m.J. Chang, MIT: "Electrical spin injection and electric field control of spin precession" (invited) (PDF)
2:05-2:40 p.mB. Jonker, NRL: "Spin transport in high and low spin-orbit semiconductors" (invited) (PDF)
2:40 -3:15 p.m.H. Dery, Rochester U: "The relation between the circular polarized luminescence and the electron spin polarization in silicon" (invited) (PowerPoint)
3:15 -3:50 p.m.C. Stanton, U. Florida: "Optically Probing Spin-Split Band Structures in Semiconductor Nanostructures" (invited) (PowerPoint)
3:50-4:10 p.m.Coffee break
Session: Spin in Quantum Point Contact/Transport
4:10-4:45 p.m.M. Cahay, Cincinnati: “All electric spintronics” (invited) (PowerPoint)
4:45-5:10 p.m.M. J. Iqbal, J. de Jong, E. J. Koop, C. H. van der Wal, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, U. Groningen, “Tunable quasi-localized states and Kondo physics in open quantum point contacts” (Presentation not available.)
5:10-5:45 p.m.M. K. Husain, C.H. de Groot , C Shen, T. Trypiniotis, K Y Lee, D R Leadley, G Bell, E. H. C. Parker, T. E. Whall, and C. H. W. Barnes, U. Southampton “Spin transport in germanium at room temperature” (invited) (PDF)
 
Wednesday June 23
Session: Magneto-Thermal Spin Transport
8:30-9:05 a.m.E. Saitoh, Tohoku U: "Spin Seebeck effect." (invited). (PowerPoint)
9:05-9:40 a.m.Y. Pershin, U Sth Carolina: “Dynamical effects in semiconductor spintronics” (invited) (PowerPoint)
9:40-10:05 a.m.V. Vlaminck, O. Mosendz, J. E. Pearson,F. Y. Fradin, S. D. Bader, and A. Hoffmann, Argonne: “Spin Hall effect for Palladium measured via Spin Pumping”. (PowerPoint)
10:05-10:25 a.m.Coffee break
Session: Organic Spintronics
10:25-11:00 a.m.S. Bandyopadhyay, VCU: “The case for organic spintronics” (invited). (PowerPoint)
11:00-11:25 a.m.Bin Yan, Brynn M. Dooley, Steven E. Bowles, Mark Zsombor, Satyabrata Samanta and Natia L. Frank, U. Victoria, and U. Washington: “Spin-Delocalized Conjugated Alternating Copolymers: Purely Organic Magnetic Semiconductors for Organic Spintronics”. (Presentation not available.)
11:25 a.m.-12:00 p.m.Minn-Tsong Lin, National Taiwan U.: “Organic Spin-Valves with Inelastic Tunneling Characteristics” (invited). (PDF)
12:00-12:15 p.m.Closing remarks