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Principle Investigator
  Paul Crowell

Graduate Students
  Justin Watts
  Zhen Jiang
  Bill Peria
  James Etheridge

Alumni and Theses
   Tim Peterson - 2018
Electrical, Microwave, And Thermoelectric Studies Of Epitaxial Heusler Compound-Based Thin Films
- Now at Honeywell

   Gordon Stecklein - 2017
Generation and Absorption of Pure Spin Currents Using Graphene Nonlocal Spin Valves
- Now at Pepperdine University

   Changjiang Liu - 2016
Dynamic Detection of Spin Accumulation by Ferromagnetic Resonance
- Now at Argonne National Laboratory

   Andrew Galkiewicz - 2015
Magnetic domain wall dynamics in patterned nanowires
- Now at Intel

   Kevin Christie - 2014
Non-equilibrium spin accumulation in Co2FexMn1-xSi/n-GaAs heterostructures
- Now at Polar Semiconductor

   Chad Geppert - 2014
Spin-dependent transport phenomena in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures
- Now at Intel

  Lee Weinkes (Postdoc) - 2013
- Now at Honeywell
  Mike Erickson - 2013
Surface and Interface effects in nanoscopic metallic spin transport devices
- Now at Intel

  Te-Yu Chen - 2012
Magnetic vortex dynamics: non-linear dynamics, pinning mechanisms, and dimensionality crossover
- Now at Intel

  Eric Garlid - 2010 Electrical Detection of the Spin Hall Effect in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures
- Now at Intel

  Mun Chan - 2010
Hyperfine effects in ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructure
- Now at Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Robert Compton - 2007
Vortex Pinning and Dynamics
- Now at Honeywell

  Xiaohua Lou - 2007
Electrical Detection of Spin Transport in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures
- Now at Lumentum

  Jooho Park - 2005
Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Vortex Structures
- Now at Intel

  Jonathan Strand - 2004
Electron Spin Dynamics and Hyperfine Interaction in Ferromanget-Semiconductor Heterostructures
- Now at Micron Technology

  Abdel Isakovic - 2003
Spin Transport in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures
- Now at Khalifa University

  Dave Engebretson - 2003
Time-Resolved Magnetization Dynamics in Crystalline Ferromagnets and Exchange-Biased Systems
- Now at Citigroup Derivatives

  Brian Caliva - 2001
Electronic Properties of Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
- Now at Lasertel

Group Photo

Group Photo

Summer 2014
Left to right: John Valentin, Changjiang Liu, Yilikal Ayino, Andrew Galkiewicz, Alex Boldin, Chad Geppert, Paul Crowell, Justin Watts, Kevin Christie, Gordon Stecklein, Tim Peterson