Vincent Sokalski
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.
Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Lau, Derek | Graduate Student | dklau@cmu.edu |
| Li, Maxwell | Graduate Student | mpli@andrew.cmu.edu |
Affiliation:
Materials Science & EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University
Websites:
Affiliation:
Materials Science & EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University
Websites:
- "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.
- "Energetic molding of chiral magnetic bubbles." Derek Lau, Vignesh Sundar, Jian-Gang Zhu, Vincent Sokalski. Physical review B.
- "Experimental modeling of intergranular exchange coupling for perpendicular thin film media." Vincent Sokalski, David E Laughlin, Jian-Gang Zhu. Applied physics letters.
- "Dispersive stiffness of Dzyaloshinskii domain walls." JP Pellegren, Derek Lau, Vincent Sokalski. Physical review letters.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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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Zachary W. Ulissi joined Carnegie Mellon University in 2017, after doing his PhD at MIT and post-doc at Stanford. His research at MIT focused on the the applications of systems engineering methods to understanding selective nanoscale carbon nanotube devices and sensors under the supervision of Michael Strano and Richard Braatz. Prof. Ulissi did his postdoctoral work at Stanford with Jens Nørskov where he worked on machine learning techniques to simplify complex catalyst reaction networks, applied to the electrochemical reduction of N2 and CO2 to fuels. The Ulissi group builds on this foundation to model, understand, and design nanoscale interfaces using modern predictive methods to guide detailed molecular simulations.
Susan Fullerton received both her B.S. and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, at Penn State University. She then joined Notre Dame University as a Research Assistant Professor, where she still holds a courtesy appointment in the Electrical Engineering Department. She moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 to carry on her work on polymer electrolytes. She has won more than a dozen awards throughout her career and holds a patent for single transistor random access memory using ion storage in two-dimensional crystals. Susan, her husband, and their daughter are happy to be back home in Pittsburgh with their families.
Dr. Purdy is interested in harnessing the quantum effects intrinsic in the mechanical interaction of light with macroscopic mechanical resonators to improve measurement and metrology. Previously, Dr. Purdy worked as a physicist in the Quantum Optics Group, Quantum Measurement Division, PML at NIST. Before joining NIST, Dr. Purdy has worked on a wide variety of optomechanical systems as a postdoctoral researcher at JILA and in his graduate work at UC Berkeley.