IEEE APS Lecture Series
TITLE: Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Compact and Power Efficient Sensing, Memory, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015
Time:6:00 PM
Location: MIT Lincoln Laboratory A-Café
Refreshments & Snacks Served at 5:30pm
Speaker: Prof. Nian Sun / Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics
Abstract: The coexistence of electric polarization and magnetization in multiferroic materials provides great opportunities for realizing magnetoelectric coupling, including electric field control of magnetism, or vice versa, through a strain mediated magnetoelectric interaction effect in layered magnetic/ferroelectric multiferroic heterostructures . Strong magnetoelectric coupling has been the enabling factor for different multiferroic devices, which however has been elusive, particularly at RF/microwave frequencies. In this presentation, I will cover the most recent progress on different magnetic and multiferroic heterostructures and devices, including nanoelectromechanical system magnetoelectric sensors with picoTesla sensitivity by usingFeGaB/Al2O3 multilayers, new integrated GHz magnetic inductors based on solenoid structures with FeGaB/Al2O3 and FeCoB/Al2O3 multilayers exhibiting >150% enhanced inductance and quality factor ~20 at GHz frequencies over their air core counterparts, power efficient voltage tunable magnetoelectric inductors with inductance tunability of 50%~150% at GHz, etc. These novel voltage tunable GHz inductors show great promise for applications in radio frequency integrated circuits. At the same time, we will demonstrate other tunable multiferroic devices, including multiferroic voltage tunable bandpass filters [6], tunable bandstop filters, tunable phase shifters, multiferroic antennas,and spintronics, etc.
For more information, contact:
Raoul O. Ouedraogo, raoul.ouedraogo@ll.
Wajih Elsallal, welsallal@mitre.org
Jonathan Doane, jon.doane@ll.mit.edu
For directions please see: http://www.ll.mit.edu/
Speaker Bio:
Nian Sun is a professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
Northeastern University, and Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for
Integrated Ferroics. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University.
Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a Scientist at IBM and Hitachi
Global Storage Technologies. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award,
ONR Young Investigator Award, the Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, etc.
His research interests include novel magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic
materials, devices and subsystems. He has over 160 publications and over 20
patents and patent disclosures. One of his papers was selected as the “ten most
outstanding full papers in the past decade (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials”. Dr. Sun has given over ~100 invited
presentations or seminars. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on
Magnetics, and a fellow of the Institute of Physics, and of the
Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Speaker page: http://www.northeastern.
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