News |
| » Eva Franke-Schubert receives NSF CAREER Award (January 2009). |
| » Nebraska MRSEC receives an $8.1M grant from NSF to support research in nanomagnetism through 2014 (September 2008). |
| » Evgeny Tsymbal is named fellow of the American Physical Society (October 2008). |
| » MRSEC hosted a visit by industrial liaisons from NRI (October 2008). |
| » Teachers develop lessons and activities (RET program Summer 2008). |
| » Kirill Belashchenko receives Cottrell Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (July 2008). |
| » The paper “Correlation effects and electronic structure of Gd@C60,” by R. F. Sabirianov et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 082201 (2007), was selected as one of the Top Papers 2007 (March 2008). |
| » Evgeny Tsymbal is named a fellow of the UK Institute of Physics (March 2008). |
| » Oxford University Press published book “Simple Models of Magnetism” by Ralph Skomski (March 2008). |
| » John D. Burton received Presidential Fellowship, University of Nebraska 2007-2008. |
| » Karolina Janicka received Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Graduate Fellowship2007-2008. |
| » The following students (all MRSEC!) received the Best Student Poster Awards at the 54th Midwest Solid State Conference (October 2007): - "The Origins of Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Nanoscale Ferromagnetic Metal Break Junctions" by J. D. Burton (Physics, E. Tsymbal) - "Locally Probed Ferroelectricity of Ferroelectric Nanomesas by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy" by Jihee Kim (Physics, S. Ducharme) - "Magnetization Precession and Damping in Ni/Pt Bilayers" by Steven Michalski (Physics, R. Kirby) - "Temperature Dependent Dielectric Function of AL0.52IN0.48P and GA0.52IN0.48P" by Eric Montgomery (Electr. Eng., M. Schubert) - "Scaling Behavior of the Exchange Bias Training Effect" by Srinivas Polisetty (Physics, Ch. Binek) - "Thermodynamics of Itinerant Magnets: A Simple Classical Model with Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations" by Alexsander Wysocki (Physics, K. Belashchenko). |
| » University of Nebraska hosted the 54th Midwest Solid State Conference (October, 2007). |
| » The Nebraska MRSEC Review was held on October 5, 2007. |
| » Peter Dowben is named a fellow of the American Vacuum Society (October 2007). |
| » Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter published a special Issue on “Half-Metallic Ferromagnets” edited by P. A. Dowben (August 2007). |
| » Evgeny Tsymbal received the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award from College of Arts and Sciences (May 2007). |
| » Nebraska MRSEC received NRI/NSF Supplement Grant: Multiferroic Interfaces: New Paradigms for Functional Switching (April 2007). |
| » Christian Binek received Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Sigma Xi (April 2007). |
| » A. Sokolov, C. Zhang, E. Y. Tsymbal, J. Redepenning, and B. Doudin’s Nature Nanotechnology paper “Quantized magnetoresistance in atomic-size contacts” was featured in Physics World, Materials Today, the Economist, TechWorld, by the Institute of Physics PhysicsWeb, the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics (Feb. 2007). |
| » Xiangxin Rui received Pierson Graduate Research Award 2007. |
| » Lu Yuan received University-wide Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award 2007. |
| » Danqin Feng received Fling Fellowship 2006-2007 and Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2007. |
| » The paper 'Nanomagnetics' by R. Skomski, J. Phys: Condens. Matter 15, R841-896 (2003) was selected by SPIE as one of the top 50 papers ever published in the field of nanotechnology theory and modeling and included in a reprint volume (2006). |
| » J. D. Burton received UNL College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award and Graduate Student Research Competition Prize at UNL Research Fair (2006). |
| » Christian Binek and J. D. Burton received Best Poster Award at 53rd Midwest Solid State Conference, Kansas City 2006. |
| » Peter Dowben received Excellence in Graduate Education Award and College of Engineering Multidisciplinary Research Award 2006. |
| » Luis Rosa received GRC Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship 2005 and UNL College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Research Assistant Award 2006. |
| » David Sellmyer received University of Nebraska Sigma Xi Outstanding Scientist Award 2005-2006 . |
| » Danqin Feng received University of Nebraska Frank and Marie Wheeler Fellowship 2005-2006. |
| » Anthony Caruso received Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award 2005. |
| » Peter A. Dowben and Xiao Cheng Zeng were elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (October 2005). |
| » John Belot received IBM Investigator Award, March 2005. |
| » Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Steve Wignall (RET Participant) have Trophy Award Winner Paper at MRS Fall Meeting 2004. |
| » Peter Dowben is named Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (November 2004). |
| » Anthony Caruso received Sigma Xi Graduate Student Paper Award (2004) and Bukey Memorial Fellowship (2004-2005). |
