Vincent Sokalski

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
Summary:

Our research is focused on the exploration of novel magnetic & spintronic materials for memory, logic, and HDD storage applications. We concentrate on the development of thin films & nanoscale devices that will enable improved energy efficiency, non-volatility, and scalability to ever-decreasing dimensions. Current research efforts include crystallographic & microstructural characterization of perpendicular magnetic recording media, materials for spin hall effect devices, spin transfer torque magneto-resistive random access memory (STT-MRAM), and magnetic interactions in soft nanogranular composite thin films.

Students
Namesort descending Position Email
Lau, Derek Graduate Student dklau@cmu.edu
Li, Maxwell Graduate Student mpli@andrew.cmu.edu

Derek Lau

Graduate Student

dklau@cmu.edu
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA, 15213

Affiliation:

Materials Science & Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Websites:

Maxwell Li

Graduate Student

mpli@andrew.cmu.edu
4301 Wean Hall, Pittsburgh PA, 15213

Affiliation:

Materials Science & Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Websites:

Most Cited Publications
  1. "Optimization of Ta thickness for perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction applications in the MgO-FeCoB-Ta system." Vincent Sokalski, Matthew T Moneck, En Yang, Jian-Gang Zhu. Applied Physics Letters.
  2. "Energetic molding of chiral magnetic bubbles." Derek Lau, Vignesh Sundar, Jian-Gang Zhu, Vincent Sokalski. Physical review B.
  3. "Experimental modeling of intergranular exchange coupling for perpendicular thin film media." Vincent Sokalski, David E Laughlin, Jian-Gang Zhu. Applied physics letters.
  4. "Dispersive stiffness of Dzyaloshinskii domain walls." JP Pellegren, Derek Lau, Vincent Sokalski. Physical review letters.
  5. "Experimental demonstration of four-terminal magnetic logic device with separate read-and write-paths." DM Bromberg, MT Moneck, VM Sokalski, J Zhu, L Pileggi, J-G Zhu. 2014 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting.
Recent Publications
  1. "Formation of zero-field Skyrmion arrays in asymmetric superlattices." Maxwell Li, Anish Rai, Ashok Pokhrel, Arjun Sapkota, Claudia Mewes, Tim Mewes, Marc De Graef, Vincent Sokalski. arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03578.
  2. "Stabilization of coupled Dzyaloshinskii domain walls in fully compensated synthetic anti-ferromagnets." Nisrit Pandey, Maxwell Li, Marc De Graef, Vincent Sokalski. arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11421.
  3. "Lorentz TEM Imaging of Topological Magnetic Features in Asymmetric [Pt/(Co/Ni)M/Ir]N based Multi-Layers." Maxwell Li, Derek Lau, Marc De Graef, Vincent Sokalski. Microscopy and Microanalysis.
  4. "Lorentz TEM investigation of chiral spin textures and Néel Skyrmions in asymmetric multi-layer thin films." Maxwell Li, Derek Lau, Marc De Graef, Vincent Sokalski. Physical Review Materials.
  5. "Magnetic domain wall skyrmions." Ran Cheng, Maxwell Li, Arjun Sapkota, Anish Rai, Ashok Pokhrel, Tim Mewes, Claudia Mewes, Di Xiao, Marc De Graef, Vincent Sokalski. Physical Review B.

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Alan D. George

Dr. George is Department Chair, R&H Mickle Endowed Chair, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He is Founder and Director of the NSF Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC), a national research center and consortium founded in 2017 and headquartered at Pitt. SHREC features nearly 40 academic, industry, and government partners and is considered by many as the top research center in its field.

Noa Marom

Noa Marom received her B.A. in Physics and her B.S. in Materials Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. From 2002 to 2004 she worked as an Application Engineer in the Process Development and Control Division of Applied Materials. She  then pursued and received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science and was awarded the Shimon Reich Memorial Prize of Excellence for her thesis. After a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin, she moved toTulane University as an became an Assistant Professor before joining the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2016.

Sara Majetich

Sara Majetich received her B.A. in chemistry from Princeton University, her M.S. in Physical Chemistry from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from the University of Georgia. Following that, she did postdoctoral work at Cornell University before joining the Physics Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 1990, where she now is a full professor. She received several awards including the Ashkin Award for excellence in teaching, the Carnegie Mellon University Undergraduate Advising Award, and a National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. She has three patents and over 100 publications.