Speaker：Prof.Chris Palmstrom Time: Tuesday,10:00a.m.,27th October Place: A718 SINANO Bio  Professor Chris Palmstrom, one of the world's leading researchers of electronic materials, joined the ECE faculty at UCSB in the Fall of '07. Born in Norway, Palmstrom received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds (England) in 1979. After five years of research on semiconductor materials and contact techonologies at Cornell, he joined Bellcore in 1985. There, he did groundbreaking research on semiconductor surfaces, semiconductor doping, polymer/polymer diffusion and the molecular beam epitaxial growth of metal/semiconductor heterostructures. In 1994, Dr.Palmstrom went to the University of Minnesota, where he soon became a leading researcher in several fields, including new spintronic materials that combine the functions of electronic and magnetic manipulation and storage on information. Professor Palmstrom fits well into UCSB's research programs where he has significant collaborations with Professors Gossard, Brown, Rodwell, Stemmer, and Van de Walle.
Research Interest Spintronics, Metallization of Semiconductors, Thin Film Analysis, Dissimilar Materials Epitaxial Growth, and Molecular Beam and Chemical Beam Epitaxial Growth of Metallic Compounds, Functional Materials, Magnetic Materials and Compound Semiconductors Abstract The spin dependent transport across ferromagnet/semiconductor interfaces depends critically on their structure and electronic properties. Interfacial reactions, the formation of non-magnetic interlayers, and conductivity mismatch have been attributed to low spin injection efficiency. In the case of Fe3Ga/GaAs(001) interfaces, the interface reconstruction was found to depend on the GaAs(001) surface reconstruction and the Fe3Ga growth conditions. Record high spin accumulation at Co2MnSi Heusler compound/GaAs (001) interfaces in lateral spin transport device structures have been measured. Using a combination of molecular beam epitaxy and in-situ scanning tunneling microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we have investigated the interface formation and growth mechanisms. Ab-initio theory and ex-situ transmission electron microscopy studies have been used to corroborate the Heusler compound/semiconductor interfacial atomic structure. This presentation will emphasize the progress in the understanding of the atomic scale structure of epitaxial magnetic metal/III-V semiconductor heterostructures interface and its influence on the magnetic and spin transport properties. |
