MLAB at UTAH
Welcome to MLAB!
We are an experimental condensed matter physics group headed by Eric Arturo Montoya in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah.
Our research focuses on magnetic materials and spin physics. We have expertise in sample growth and device nanofabrication. Our group studies the impact of spin-orbit interaction on magnetization and spin dynamics, spin transport, and spin torques. We are also interested in harnessing these effects for creating novel spintronic and spin-orbitronic devices.
News
January 2024
Eric gives talk for the Online Spintronics Seminar.
New preprint Self-generated spin-orbit torque driven by anomalous Hall current available. This work demonstrates the discovery of a self-generated spin-orbit torque associated with the anomalous Hall effect that, together with the spin Hall torque and planar Hall torque, forms a triad of universal Hall-type torques.
August 2023
Awarded as CO-PI $900k National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (NSF-MRI) grant for the “Acquisition of an integrated physical property measurement system for the electrical, optical, and magnetic characterization of materials”
July 2023
Easy-plane spin Hall oscillator published in Communications Physics
March 2023
Prakash wins 2nd place poster award at the U of U Physics and Astronomy Graduate Research Symposium!
August 2022
Robust Spin Injection via Thermal Magnon Pumping in Antiferromagnet/Ferromagnet Hybrid Systems published in Physical Review Research