Symposium NM07-Nanoscale Magnetic Structures and Materials

Nanoscale magnetic structures and materials have demonstrated novel magnetic properties and enhanced performance for applications which have been instrumental to modern technology. As a subfield of nanotechnology in materials science, nanoscale magnetic structures and materials share many of the same basic organizing principles such as geometric confinement, physical proximity, and chemical self-organization. These principles are illustrated by means of several examples drawn from the quests for ultra-strong permanent magnets for energy harvesting and conversion, ultra-high-density magnetic information storage, and bio-medical applications. This symposium will highlight some of the most recent advances in this field, from the synthesis and fabrication of novel nanomagnetic structures and development of novel characterization techniques to novel magnetic effects at heterostructure interfaces. This symposium also aims to address critical issues and challenges going forward, such as fundamental limits to energy product of permanent magnets, areal density of magnetic data storage and speed of magnetic switching.

This symposium is also organized to celebrate Prof. David Sellmyer’s contributions and achievements in magnetism and magnetic materials research, during his forty-year plus career at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. David Sellmyer is George Holmes University Distinguished Professor at UNL and director of Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. As a veteran in magnetics research, he has made outstanding contributions to the fields of new magnetic materials, nanocomposite permanent magnets and novel high-anisotropy materials for data storage. He has been recognized by numerous awards and honors, among them a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Iketani Science and Technology Foundation of Japan, and the Louise Pound-George Howard Distinguished Career Award.

Topics will include:

Nanostructured soft magnets
Nanostructured permanent magnets
Magnetic thin films for memory and logic (MRAM, MTJ)
Magnetocaloric materials
Biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles
Mesoscale magnetism
Magnetic Skyrmions
Novel processing techniques for magnetic nanostructures
Novel characterization techniques for magnetic nanostructures

Invited Speakers:

Jhinhwan Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea) (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
James Rhyne (U.S. Department of Energy, USA)
Guohan Hu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Kumar Srinivasan (Western Digital Company, USA)
Shouheng Sun (Brown University, USA)
Mike Coey (Trinity College, Ireland)
Jun Cui (Ames Laboratory / Iowa State University, USA)
Jun Ding (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Haifeng Du (Hefei Institute of Physical Science, China)
Claudia Felser (Max Plank Institut, Germany)
Arun Gupta (University of Alabama, USA)
George Hadjipanays (University of Delaware, USA)
Satoshi Hirosawa (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
Axel Hoffmann (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Yanglong Hou (Peking University, China)
Bert Koopmans (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Runwei Li (Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, China)
Jingfang Liu (Electron Energy Corporation, USA)
Sara Majetich (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Toshiyuki Matsui (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
Michael McHenry (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Stuart Parkin (Max Plank Institut, Germany)
Bing Rong (Ford Motor Company, USA)
Thomas Schrefl (Dauube University Krems, Austria)
Ivan Schuller (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Jeff Shield (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Ralph Skomski (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Jianping Wang (University of Minnesota, USA)
Ming Yue (Beijing University of Technology, China)
Jiadong Zang (University of New Hamsphire, USA)