Archived News
07/28/2020:
Yuzan's first-author paper, on the magneto-optical investigation of the "magnetically-induced transparency", was published in NPG Scientific Report.
and on OU SECS facebook link.
03/11/2020:
Farewell, Jiayu! Thank you for your great work with us along with the many exciting developments in the past year!
02/03/2020:
Wei Zhang visits Auburn University, AL to install a 2nd-generation "fiber-optic FMR system" for the ECE Department.
01/08/2020:
DOE Office of Science Highlights: "A New Twist on Controlling Magnetic Properties" on our FeCo damping work.
https://www.energy.gov/science/ascr/articles/new-twist-controlling-magnetic-properties
Paper: Physical Review Letters. 122, 117203 (2019)
01/06/2020:
Wei Zhang received 2020 NSF CAREER Award to research on quantum spintronics. An important part of the project includes developing innovative laboratory teaching for education and dissemination of "quantum physics concepts". In particular, we will team up with THATec-Innovation GmbH to develop Quantum Physics Lab Module with in-house developed hardware and software on top of a highly interactive laboratory learning platform.
12/30/2019:
Magnon-magnon coupling probed by magneto-optical effects revealing novel spin-wave phase evolution:
See ArXiv:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13407
11/01/2019:
Magnon-magnon coupling probed by microwave transmission (VNA) revealing nontrivial coherent mutual spin pumping:
see ArXiv:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14470
10/24/2019:
Wei Zhang receives the "Most Research Active" award at the University Research Town Hall Meeting (OU Link).
10/12/2019:
Mouhamad Hammami, among other OU students, presented our work at the Michigan Space Grant Consortium Fall Conference in Ann Arbor. Congratulations!
09/03/2019:
A Viewpoint article is published to cover our recent work on "Strong coupling between magnons and superconducting resonator photons".
Also in Argonne News release: Scientists couple magnetization to superconductivity for quantum discoveries
08/01/2019:
Wei Zhang is selected as a Technical Committee member of the IEEE Magnetic Society.
07/27/2019:
Our "Simultaneous electrical and optical spin-torque magnetometer" (see: Phy. Rev. Applied 11, 034047) now has a modular, compact, integrated version!
07/09/2019:
Our collaborative research proposal for exploring THz spintronics on organic perovskite materials was granted. Thanks to the NSF-EPMD program. This project will start in the Fall with joint efforts from NCSU and UNC.
06/20/2019:
Our proposal for acquiring an Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer was granted. Thanks to the NSF-MRI program and special acknowledgment to the lead-PI, Dr. Amitava Adhikary !
05/28/2019:
Our group receives a seed grant from AFOSR allowing his lab to acquire a 20-GHz high-speed oscilloscope and an ultrafast pulse generator from Pico Technology. Thanks to AFOSR.
04/17/2019:
Wei Zhang receives university recognition at the annual faculty luncheon:
03/27/2019:
Our recent research work got covered on the OU front page:
Full story can be found: Link.
03/12/2019:
Wei Zhang was honored by the University Assessment Committee and gave a presentation on his assessment work on physics programs.
02/26/2019:
Strong magnon-photon coupling in Permalloy device achieved!
See: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09715
02/15/2019:
Our unique stroboscopic optical "spin-orbit-torque magnetometry" starts to produce data!
See: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01923
Also see an example of such phase-sensitive method adopted for epitaxial FeCo thin films: Link.
02/14/2019:
Giant anisotropy of FeCo magnetic damping is found!
See: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01941
02/07/2019:
Mouhamad and Sawyer both receive the MSGC student fellowship to continue their research on Spin Seebeck effect of magnetic materials. Thanks to MSGC and NASA!
The fellowship program can be found here: Link.
01/15/2019:
Our group receives DOE-Argonne subcontract grant and he will work at Argonne Lab in the summer to conduct research on quantum materials under high-pressure environment with Prof. Zhili Xiao at Advanced Photon Source. Thanks to ANL.
Also see our pioneering result on the charge transport of GaAs quantum wells published on Nature Communications. Link.
12/18/2018:
The collaborative work on Round Robin Spin Seebeck effect, with Inrim, Bielefield U, Tohuku U, NIMS, Pohang U, Cincinnati U, OSU, Delaware U, Argonne, and PTB, was published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. (Link)
11/01/2018:
Mouhamad and Sawyer from the Physics Department joined the group to conduct our collaborative project with NCSU.
10/01/2018:
Our invited paper, "Gate-Tuned Temperature in a Hexagonal Boron Nitride-Encapsulated 2-D Semiconductor Device", is published and enclosed in the Special Issue on 2-D Materials for Electronic, optoelectronic, and Sensor Devices of IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices.
07/23/2018:
Our group receives NSF-DMR grant to explore magneto-electric properties of nanofibers with Prof. Srinivasan. Thanks to NSF.
06/25/2018:
Wei Zhang receives DoE Visiting Faculty Fellowship and begins his summer research with APS at Argonne. Thanks to DOE.
06/15/2018:
Our group received a seed grant from Michigan Space Grant Consortium. Thanks to NASA.
04/06/2018:
Wei Zhang completed his PI Academy training:
and he looks forward to working with his external mentor, Dr. Geoff Beach (MIT): Link
02/23/2018:
Wei Zhang selected as one of the outstanding reviewers for IOP Publishing.
08/01/2017:
Wei Zhang participates in REAP summer mentoring program.
05/23/2017:
DOE Highlight on our Nano Letter paper:
04/26/2017:
W. Zhang received IEEE Early Career Award.
http://www.ieeemagnetics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=273&Itemid=183
01/28/2017:
Our MoS2 paper published in APL Mater belongs to the list of most accessed articles of the journal in 2016.
http://aip-info.org/1XPS-4QCYX-A5C9LXEB61/cr.aspx
09/21/2016:
Argonne News: Argonne ahead of the "curve" in magnetic study: http://www.anl.gov/articles/argonne-ahead-curve-magnetic-study
See the paper in Nature Physics: Direct Observation of the Skyrmion Hall effect.
09/01/2016:
NSF highlights: Making the switch, this time with an insulator. https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=189739&org=NSF&from=news
Work in collaboration with Prof. Mingzhong Wu at Colorado State University.
See the paper in Nature Communications: Spin orbit torque assisted switching in magnetic insulator thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
05/28/2016:
Review article on exchange bias and antiferromagnetic spintronics published in Materials Science and Engineering: R: Report (IF = 11.789)
04/05/2016:
Nature Highlights: Spin-caloritronics: Neel meets Seebeck. http://www.nature.com/nnano/reshigh/2016/0416/full/nnano.2016.59.html
See the paper in PRL: Antiferromagnetic spin Seebeck effect.
03/03/2016:
Editorial's pick of our work published in special topics of 2016 - "2D spintronics" https://twitter.com/aip_publishing/status/724621613984059392
See the paper in APL Materials: Spin transfer torques in permalloy on monolayer MoS2.
02/15/2016:
Argonne News: Could the future of low-power computing be magnetism? http://www.anl.gov/articles/could-future-low-power-computing-be-magnetism
See the paper in PRL: Large spin-wave bullet in a ferrimagnetic insulator driven by the spin Hall effect.
See the other paper in Nanoscale: Epitaxial patterning of nanometer-thick Y3Fe5O12 films with low magnetic damping. (2016 Nanoscale HOT Article Selection)