This year’s Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division program features pioneering, provocative, introductory, and emerging results in topical areas related to magnetic interfaces and nanostructures. Particular attention will be given to research areas in magnetism that are of strong interest to the AVS community so that maximum overlap with other divisions and focus topics can be achieved. The program will cover a wide area of topics ranging from chiral magnetism and spin orbit effects at interfaces to magnetism in magnetocaloric materials. The focus of the program is to cover areas of magnetism that are fascinating from a fundamental point of view but which carry significance for future applications. In addition, we would like to especially focus on the synergy between the research areas covered by MI and their role for the development of new materials and devices for the information society. For this reason the program will feature a special mini-symposium “Highlighting Women Researching Magnetism.” The Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division will be selecting the best graduate student presentation from finalists for the Leo Falicov Award. MI will also offer an award for postdoctoral fellows who will be presenting papers at this International Symposium. The winners of both awards will be announced towards the end of the meeting.
MI1: Topological Insulator Heterostructures
- Badih Assaf, University of Notre Dame, “Magnetism in Topological Crystalline Insulator Heterostructures”
- Leonid Rokhinson, Purdue University, “Building New Platforms to Form Non-Abelian Excitations”
MI2: Spin Landscape I: Magnetic Structures in Real and Momentum Space
- Sinead Griffin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Topological Multiferroics”
- Art Smith, Ohio University, “Surface Magnetic Properties of Spintronic Nitride Materials Studied using Spin-polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy & Spectroscopy”
MI3: Spin Landscape II: Magnetic Structures for Energy-Efficient Computing/Devices
- Daniel Wegner, Radboud University, The Netherlands, “From Spin Spirals to Spin Glasses – Imaging Complex Magnetism on the Atomic Scale”
MI4: Mini Symposium: Highlighting Women Researching Magnetism
- Jamileh Beik Mohammadi, Loyola University New Orleans, “Magnetic Exchange and Anisotropy in Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junction Nanopillars: Experiment and Micromagnetic Modeling”
- Michelle Jamer, United States Naval Acadamy, “Moving Toward Antiferromagnetic Straintronics”
- Claudia Meves, University of Alabama, “Computational Frontier of Spintronic Materials”
- Annika Schlenhoff, University of Hamburg, Germany, “Vacuum Resonance States as Atomic-Scale Probes of Noncollinear Surface Magnetism”
MI5: Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Poster Session