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| Yayoi Takamura | |
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email: ytakamura@ucdavis.edu |
| Office: 3096 Bainer Hall | |
| Phone: (530)754-7124 | |
| Assistant Professor | ||
| B.S., 1998, Cornell University, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering M.S., 2000, Stanford University, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D., 2004, Stanford University, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Research, U.C. Berkeley - Dept. Materials Science and Engineering | ||
List of Publications | ||
Research  | ||
| Over the past 30 years, the integrated circuit (IC) and information storage industries have experienced a tremendous evolution, creating faster and cheaper devices with more functionality. While researchers in these industries have succeeded in scaling devices far further than originally imagined possible, future miniaturization faces major obstacles due to factors such as quantum effects, the patterning of nanometer scale features, and the superparamagnetism limit. In light of these challenges, the researchers in these fields have uncovered the possibility of combining their knowledge bases together to form a field known as spin electronics, or spintronics. Unlike traditional IC’s in which signals are determined by the charge of electrons, spintronic devices utilize both the spin and the charge of electrons for increased functionality. Potential benefits of using spin currents include increased speed of devices and decreased power consumption. The focus of this research program is the use of non-equilibrium thin film growth techniques to develop new materials for spintronic applications and to perform detailed characterization to understand the correlation between the structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of these materials. |
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