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• Proximity, exchange and interface effects on the magnetic behavior of tailored heterostructures.
• Epitaxial growth by UHV ion-beam sputtering.
• Perpendicular exchange bias (AFM/FM) and exchange-spring (FM/FM) behavior.
• Domain wall stability and resistance in coupled metal/oxide bilayers.
• Spin-torque in patterned heterostructures with perpendicular anisotropy
• X-ray magnetic scattering

Active Projects:
Exchange anisotropy, engineered coercivity and spintronics in atomically engineered L10 heterostructures
Funding: Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences (07/15/06 -07/14/10)

Completed Projects:
Atomically Engineered Mn-Pd-Fe Heterostructures: Exchange Anisotropy and Advanced Characterization with Electron, Photon and Neutron Probes
Funding: DoE/BES (07/15/02 - 07/14/06)

Interlayer perpendicular domain coupling between thin Fe films and garnet single-crystal underlayers
Funding: Campbell Endowment, UW (9/15/03-9/15/07)

Personnel:
Dr. A. Pakhomov, Assistant Research Professor, UW
Mr. Y. Kim, Undergraduate student, MSE (6/07 - )

Collaborators:
Dr. H. Ohldag (Advanced Light Source, LBNL) Photoemission electron microscopy
Dr. S. te Velthuis (Argonne National Laboratory) Neutron Scattering
Dr. D. Weiss, WTC

Project Alumni:
Dr. A. Kouprine, Post-doctoral Fellow (1/07-12/07)

Dr. Xiaosong Ji, (Graduate Student, MSE : 2002-2007)
Dual Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology, UW Dissertation: "Perpendicular anisotropy and exchange bias in magnetic thin film heterostructures"

Dr. Yoonsoo Chun , (Graduate Student, MSE : 2002-2007)
Ph.D . in Materials Science and Engineering, UW
Dissertation: "Domain wall stability and resistance in perpendicularly-coupled metal/oxide bilayers"

Prof. In-Gyu Lee

Dr. Saikat Mandal, Post-doctoral Fellow (2005-6)

Dr. Peter Blomqvist, Post-doctoral Fellow (2002-4)

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