Condensed Matter & Materials Physics (CMMP)
and Nanotechnology
and Nanotechnology
Faculty
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Shireen Adenwalla | Novel interactions in Thin film magnetic systems; interactions at ferroelectric/ferromagnetic interfaces; Boron based semiconductors and neutron detection applications; using biological templates for patterned media. |
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Kirill Belashchenko | Electronic structure and magnetism of solids; spin-dependent transport; microstructural evolution in alloys; microstructure/property relationships in magnetic materials. |
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Christian Binek | Magnetic heterostructures, molecular beam epitaxy, extrinsically controlled exchange bias & spintronic applications, fundamental aspects of thermodynamics studied with magnetic model systems. |
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Peter A. Dowben | Electronic (band) structure across electronic phase transitions in reduced dimensionality. |
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Stephen P. Ducharme | Design and study of polymers; development of a self-calibrating ellipsometer; ultrathin ferroelectric polymer films; photorefractive and xerographic polymers. |
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Axel Enders | Magnetism and electronic properties of nanostructures formed by self-assembled growth, low- and variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, magneto-optics, magnetic dichroism with x-rays |
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Alexei Gruverman | The group research is focused on fundamental studies of nanoscale physical phenomena in electronic and polar materials by means of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques. |
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Robert J. Hardy | Statistical mechanics; computer simulations. |
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Roger D. Kirby | Magnetism in nanostructured materials; magnetization reversal processes; magneto-optical measurements. |
| Diandra Leslie-Pelecky | Cluster-assembled materials; non-equilibrium fabrication techniques. | |
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Sy-Hwang Liou | Magnetic domain imaging; magnetic nanostructured materials and complex oxides. |
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David J. Sellmyer | Nanoscale magnetic materials, self-assembled dots, extremely high density recording media, nanostructured high-energy product magnetic materials. |
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Evgeny Tsymbal | Theory of spin-dependent electronic transport in magnetic nanoscale systems; first-principles band structure calculations; micromagnetic modeling. |
Emeritus Professors
| John R. Hardy | |
| Sitaram S. Jaswal | |
| Edgar A. Pearlstein | |
| Paul R. Byerly, Associate Professor Emeritus |
Adjunct Professors
| Craig J. Eckhardt | Department of Chemistry, UNL |
| Vladimir Fridkin | Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117333, Russia |
| George Hadjipanayis | Department of Physics, University of Delaware |
| Wai-Ning Mei | Department of Physics, UNO |
| John A. Woollam | George Holmes Professor of Electrical Engineering, UNL |
| Xiao C. Zeng | Department of Chemistry, UNL |
Visiting Professors
Jianjun Liu, Visiting Associate Professor
Department Directories
Links
Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience
MRSEC
