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Chris Leighton

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Projects

Co1-xFexS2 Thin Film Deposition
Complex Oxide Heterostructures
Composition Controlled Spin Polarization in Co1-xFexS2
Electrodeposition of Multilayered Co/Cu Nanowires
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Cobaltites
Exchange Bias in Antiferromagnet/ferromagnet Bilayers
Exchange Coupling in Fe/CR and Co/FeMn
Highly Spin-polarized Co1-xFexS2 Thin Films
Intrinsic nm-scale Phase Separation in Perovskite Oxides
Large Area Magnetic Antidot Array Fabrication Via Block Copolymer Lithography
Large-area Magnetic Nanostructure Arrays by Block Copolymer Nanolithography
Lateral Ferromagnet-Normal Metal Spin Valves
Magnetic Nanostructure Arrays from Polymer Templates
Magnetic Phase separation in Perovskite Cobaltites
Spin Transport in Normal Metals
Spin-Density Wave Order in Epitaxial Fe/Cr Heterostructures
Training Effect in Exchange Biased FeMn/Co Thin Films

Publications

D. Engebretson, W.A.A. Macedo, Ivan K. Schuller, P. A. Crowell, and C. Leighton, "Time Domain Dynamics of the Asymmetric Magnetization Reversal in Exchange Biased Bilayers," Phys. Rev. B. 71 184412 (2005).
L. Wang, K. Umemoto, R. M. Wentzcovitch, T. Y. Chen, C. L. Chien, J. G. Checkelsky, J. C. Eckert, E. D. Dahlberg, and C. Leighton, "Co1-xFexS2: Albnable source of highly spin-polarized electrons," Physical Review Letters, vol. 94, pp. 1, 2005.
R. Olayo-Valles, M. S. Lund, C. Leighton, and M. A. Hillmyer, "Large area nanolithographic templates by selective etching of chemically stained block copolymer thin films," Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 14, pp. 2729, 2004.

 
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