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The Eighth Workshop on
SPIN POLARIZATION AND MAGNETIC
EFFECTS IN NANO-SYSTEMS
Talks will be given in Room 1400 of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building, MSU
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(Click on any title to see the abstracts.)
9:00 - 10:00 am
S. S. P. Parkin, IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, San
Jose, California.
Magnetic Tunnel Transistors: A Source of Highly Polarized Electrons
10:30 - 11:30 am
J. K. Furdyna, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, Indiana
Controlling the Curie Temperature and Coercive Field
of Ferromagnetic III-Mn-V Semiconductors
by Annealing, Extrinsic Doping, and
Multi-Layer Proximity Effects
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
M. W. Covington, Seagate Research, 1251 Waterfront Place, Pittsburgh,
PA
Current Induced Magnetization Rotation via Spin
Momentum Transfer
12:15 - 1:45 pm
Lunch and Visits to Laboratories
1:45 - 2:35 pm
Roger Koch, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York
Direct measurements of Supermagnetism in Cobalt
Nanoparticle Films
2:35 - 2:45 pm
Roger Koch, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York
The
Physical Origin of Some of the Terms in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) Equation
2:45 - 3:30 pm
L. E. Wenger, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan
Studies Of Magnetic Nanowire Arrays In Hexagonally
Ordered Porous Alumina
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:30 pm
J. Bass, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University,
East Lansing , Michigan
Spin-Memory-Loss (Spin-Flipping) in Metals and at
Metallic Interfaces
4:30 - 5:00 pm
To be filled