Journal Publications

  1. Guo-Min Yang, X. Xing, A. Daigle, O. Obi, M. Liu, J. Lou, S. Stoute, K. Naishadham, and Nian X. Sun, "Planar Annular Ring Antennas with Self-biased NiCo-Ferrite Films Loading", submitted.

  2. G. M. Yang, X. Xing, A. Daigle, O. Obi, M. Liu, S. Stoute, K. Naishadham and N. X. Sun, "Loading Effects of Self-Biased Magnetic Films on Patch Antennas with Substrate/Superstrate Sandwich Structure", IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation., In press.

  3. G. M. Yang, X. Xing, A. Daigle, O. Obi, M. Liu, S. Stoute, K. Naishadham and N. X. Sun, "Loading Effects of Self-Biased Magnetic Films on Patch Antennas with Substrate/Superstrate Sandwich Structure", IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, 58, 648 (2010).

  4. Zihui Wang, Ke Sun, Wei Tong, Mingzhong Wu, Ming Liu, and Nian X. Sun, "Microwave-Assisted Magnetization Reversal in Large-Damping Magnetic Films: Competition between Pumping and Damping", Physical Review B, 81, 064402 (2010).

  5. Ming Liu, Ogheneyunume Obi, Zhuhua Cai, Jing Lou, Guomin Yang, Katherine S. Ziemer and Nian X. Sun, "Electrical Tuning of Magnetism in Fe3O4/PZN-PT Multiferroic Heterostructures Derived by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering", J. Appl. Phys. 107, 073916 (2010).

  6. G.M. Yang, A. Shrabstein, X. Xing, O. Obi, S. Stoute, M. Liu, J. Lou, and N.X. Sun "Miniaturized Antennas and Planar Bandpass Filters With Self-Biased NiCo-Ferrite Films" IEEE Trans. Magnetics, 45, 4191 (2009).

  7. Y. Gong, Z. Cevher, M. Ebrahim, J. Lou, C. Pettiford, N. X. Sun, and Y. H. Ren, "Determination of magnetic anisotropies, interlayer coupling, and magnetization relaxation in FeCoB/Cr/FeCoB", J. Appl. Phys. 106, 063916 (2009).

  8. Xing Xing, J. Lou, G. M. Yang, O. Obi, C. Driscoll and N. X. Sun, "Wideband Vibration Energy Harvester with High Permeability Magnetic Material", Appl. Phys. Lett.95, 134103 (2009) .

  9. Jing Lou, Ming Liu, David Reed, Yuhang Ren, and Nian X. Sun, "Giant Electric Field Tuning of Magnetism in Novel Multiferroic FeGaB/Lead Zinc Niobate Lead Titanate Heterostructures", Advanced Materials, 21, 4711 (2009).

  10. G. M. Yang, X. Xing, A. Daigle, M. Liu, O. Obi, S. Stoute, K. Naishadham, and N. X. Sun, "Tunable Miniaturized Patch Antennas with Self-Biased Multilayer Magnetic Films" IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, 57, 2190 (2009).

  11. Guo-Min Yang, Ronghong Jin, Gaobiao Xiao, Carmine Vittoria, V. G. Harris, and Nian X. Sun, "Design of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Antennas with Multi-Resonant Split-Ring Loops", IEEE Trans. Antennas and Prop., 57, 256 (2009).

  12. Ming Liu, Ogheneyunume Obi, Jing Lou, Yajie Chen, Zhuhua Cai, Stephen Stoute, Mary Espanol, Magnum Lew, Xiaodan Situ, Kate S. Ziemer, Vince G. Harris, Nian X. Sun "Giant Electric Field Tuning of Magnetic Properties in Multiferroic ferrite/ferroelectric Heterostructures", Advanced Functional Materials, 19, 1826 (2009).

  13. J. Lou, D. Reed, M. Liu, N. X. Sun, "Electrostatically Tunable Inductors with Multiferroic Composites", Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 112508 (2009).

  14. Ming Liu, Ogheneyunume Obi, Jing Lou, Stephen Stoute, Zhuhua Cai,Kate S. Ziemer, Nian X. Sun "Strong Magnetoelectric coupling in Ferrite/Ferroelectric Multiferroic Heterostructures Derived by Low Temperature Spin-spray Deposition", J. Physics D Applied Physics, 42, 045007 (2009).

  15. Y. H. Ren, C. Wu, Y. Gong, C. Pettiford, and N. X. Sun, "Magnetic anisotropy and spin wave relaxation in CoFe/PtMn/CoFe trilayer films" J. Appl. Phys. 105, 073910 (2009).

  16. Jinsheng Gao, Aria Yang, Yajie Chen, J. P. Kirkland, Jing Lou, Nian X. Sun, Carmine Vittoria, and Vincent G. Harris, "The effect of boron addition on the atomic structure and microwave magnetic properties of FeGaB thin films" J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07A323 (2009).

  17. Y. H. Ren, C. Wu, Y. Gong, C. Pettiford, and Nian X. Sun, "Ultrafast Optical Study of Spin Wave Resonance and Relaxation in a CoFe/PtMn/CoFe Trilayer Film", J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07D304 (2009).

  18. Y. Chen, J. Gao, J. Lou, M. Liu, S. D. Yoon, A. L. Geiler, M. Nedoroscik, D. Heiman, N. X. Sun, C. Vittoria, and V. G. Harris, “Microwave tunability in a GaAs-based multiferroic heterostructure: Co2MnAl/GaAs/PMN-PT”, J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07A501 (2009).

  19. Yajie Chen, Jingmin Wang, Ming Liu, Jing Lou, Nian X. Sun, Carmine Vittoria, and Vincent G. Harris, "Large electric field-induced magnetic field tunability in a laminated Ni2MnGa/PMN-PT multiferroic heterostructure", Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 112502 (2008).

  20. J. Lou, D. Reed, C. Pettiford, M. Liu, Pengdi Han, Shuxiang Dong, N. X. Sun, "Giant microwave tunability in FeGaB/PMN-PT multiferroic composites", Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 262502 (2008).

  21. Ming Liu, Ogheneyunume Obi, Jing Lou, Stephen Stoute, Jian Y. Huang, Zhuhua Cai, Katherine S. Ziemer, Nian X. Sun, "Spin-spray deposited multiferroic composite Ni0.23Fe2.77O4/ Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 with strong interface adhesion", Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 152504 (2008).

  22. G. M. Yang, X. Xing, A. Daigle, M. Liu, O. Obi, J. W. Wang, K. Naishadham, and N. X. Sun, “Electronically Tunable Miniaturized Antennas on Magnetoelectric Substrates with Enhanced Performance,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 44, 3091 (2008).

  23. Cheng Wu, Amish N. Khalfan, Carl Pettiford, Nian X. Sun, Steven Greenbaum, and Yuhang Ren, "Ferromagnetic resonance studies of surface and bulk spin-wave modes in a CoFe/PtMn/CoFe multilayer film", J. Appl. Phys. 103, 07B525 (2008).

  24. Aria Yang, Hassan Imrane, Jing Lou, Johnny Kirkland, Carmine Vittoria, Nian X. Sun, and Vincent G. Harris, " Effects of boron addition to the atomic structure and soft magnetic properties of FeCoB films", J. Appl. Phys. 103, 07E736 (2008).

  25. Ashish K. Baraskar, Yajie Chen, Soack Dae Yoon, C. N. Chinnasamy, Nian X. Sun, Carmine Vittoria, Vincent G. Harris, Todd Heil, and Matthew Willard, "Structural and magnetic properties of ball-milled Ni11Co11Fe66Zr7B4Cu powders", J. Appl. Phys. 103, 07E728 (2008). 

  26. S. D. Yoon, A. K. Baraskar, A. Geiler, A. Yang, C. Pettiford, N. X. Sun, R. Goswami, M. A. Willard, C. Vittoria, and V. G. Harris, "Microwave, magnetic, and structural properties of nanocrystalline exchange-coupled Ni11Co11Fe66Zr7B4Cu1 films for high frequency applications", J. Appl. Phys. 103, 063917 (2008)

  27. C. Pettiford, J. Lou, L. Russell, N. X. Sun, "Strong Magnetoelectric Coupling at Microwave Frequencies in Metallic Magnetic Film / Lead Zirconate Titanate Multiferroic Composites", Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 122506 (2008).

  28. G.M. Yang, A. Daigle, M. Liu, O. Obi, S. Stoute, K. Naishadham and N.X. Sun, "Planar circular loop antennas with self-biased magnetic film loading", Electronics Letters, 44, 332 (2008).

  29. G.M. Yang, R. Jin, C. Vittoria, V.G. Harris, and N.X. Sun, “Small Ultra-wideband (UWB) Bandpass Filter With Notched Band”, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 18, 176 (2008)

  30. J. Lou, R. E. Insignares, Z. Cai, K. S. Ziemer,M. Liu, N. X. Sun, "Soft Magnetism, Magnetostriction and Microwave Properties of FeGaB Thin Films", Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 18254 (2007).

  31. Ming Liu, Xin Li, Jing Lou, Shijian Zheng, Kui Du, and Nian X. Sun, “A modified sol-gel process for multiferroic nanocomposite films”, J. Appl. Phys. 102, 083911 (2007).

  32. Carl Pettiford, Saumitro Dasgupta, Jin Lou, Soack D. Yoon, N. X. Sun "Bias field effects on the microwave frequency behavior of a PZT/YIG magnetoelectric bilayer", IEEE Trans Magn. 43, 3343 (2007).

  33. A.K. Baraskar, S.D. Yoon, A. Geiler, A. Yang, C.N. Chinnasamy, Y. Chen, N. X. Sun, C. Vittoria, R. Goswami, M. Willard and V.G. Harris, "Pulsed laser ablation deposition of nanocrystalline exchange coupled Ni11Co11Fe66Zr7B4Cu1 films for planar inductor applications", J. Appl. Phys. 101, 09M519 (2007).

  34. S. D. Yoon, Jiangwei Wang, Nian Sun, C. Vittoria, and V. G. Harris, "Ferrite-Coupled Line Circulator Simulations for Application at X-Band Frequency", IEEE Trans. Magn. 43, 2639 (2007).

  35. N.X. Sun, J.W. Wang, Andrew Daigle, Carl Pettiford, Hossein Mosallaei, and C. Vittoria, "Electronically Tunable Magnetic Patch Antennas with Metal Magnetic Films", Electronics Letters, 43, 434 (2007).

  36. Ming Liu, Xin Li, Hassan Imrane, Yajie Chen, Trevor Goodrich, Katherine S. Ziemer, Jian Y. Huang and Nian X. Sun, "Synthesis of Ordered Arrays of Multiferroic NiFe2O4–Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 Core-Shell Nanowires", Applied Physics Letters, 90, 152501, 2007. ---------- This paper was also selected for the April 23, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, which is published by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers.

  37. J.W. Wang, S.D. Yoon, V.G. Harris, C. Vittoria, Nian X. Sun, “Self biased Integrated Metal Magnetic Film Coupled Line Circulators for Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits”, Electronics Letters, 43, 5 (2007).

  38. Ming Liu, Jalal Lagdani, Hassan Imrane, Carl Pettiford, Jing Lou, Soak Yoon, Vincent G. Harris, Carmine Vittoria, and Nian. X Sun, "Self-assembled magnetic nanowire arrays", Applied Physics Letter, 90, 103105 (2007).   ------------ This paper was also selected for the March 19, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, which is published by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers.

  39. J. Lou, A. Daigle, L. Chen, Y. Q. Wu, V. G. Harris, C. Vittoria, and N. X. Sun, “Single crystal Fe films grown on Ge (001) substrates by magnetron sputtering”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 112501 (2006).

  40. C.I. Pettiford, A. Zeltser, S.D Yoon, V.G. Harris, C. Vittoria, and N.X. Sun, “Effective Anisotropy Fields and Ferromagnetic Resonance Behaviors of CoFe/PtMn/CoFe Trilayers”, IEEE Trans. Magn., 42, 2993 (2006).

  41. C.I. Pettiford, A. Zeltser, S.D Yoon, V.G. Harris, C. Vittoria, and N.X. Sun, “Magnetic and Microwave Properties of CoFe/PtMn/CoFe multilayer films” J. Appl. Phys., 99, 08C901 (2006).

  42. A.L. Geiler, V.G. Harris, C. Vittoria, and N.X. Sun “A nonlinear hysteresis model for magnetic materials and its application to sensitivity analysis for fluxgate sensors”, J. Appl. Phys. 98, 08B316 (2006).

  43. V. G. Harris,a Zhaohui Chen, Yajie Chen, Soack Yoon, Tomokuza Sakai, Anton Gieler, Aria Yang, and Yongxue He, K. S. Ziemer, Nian X. Sun and Carmine Vittoria “Self-biased Ba-hexaferrite films for next generation non-reciprocal u-wave and mm-wave devices”, J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08M911 (2006).

  44. S. Yoon, A. Yang, Y. Chen, N.X. Sun, D. Heiman, C. Vittoria, V.G. Harris, “Properties of Fe doped ZnO thin films”, J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08M109 (2006).

  45. S.D. Joshi, S.D. Yoon, A. Yang, N.X. Sun, C. Vittoria, and V.G. Harris, “Structure and magnetism of pulse laser deposited (Ni59Co22Fe7)88Zr7B4Cux (x=0,1) thin films”, J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08F115 (2006).

  46. N. X. Sun, S. Mehdizadeh, C. Bonhote, Q. F. Xiao, and B. York, “Magnetic Annealing of Plated High Saturation Magnetization Soft Magnetic FeCo Alloy Films”, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 10N904 (2005).

  47. N. X. Sun, Q. F. Xiao, and B. York, “Stress, Microstructure and Magnetic Softness of High Saturation Magnetization FeCoN Films”, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 10F906 (2005).

  48. N. X. Sun, and S. X. Wang, “Damping Criteria of Magnetization in Ferromagnetic Ellipsoids”, IEEE Trans. Magn. 40, 253 (2004).

  49. N. X. Sun, and S. X. Wang “Anisotropy dispersion effects on the high frequency behavior of soft magnetic Fe-Co-N thin films”, J. Appl. Phys. 93, 6468 (2003).

  50. N. X. Sun, and S. X. Wang, “Soft magnetism of Fe-Co-N thin films with a Permalloy underlayer”, J. Appl. Phys. 92, 1477 (2002).

  51. N. X. Sun, S. X. Wang, T. J. Silva, and A. B. Kos, “Soft magnetism and high frequency behavior of Fe-Co-N thin films,” IEEE Trans. Magn. 38, 146 (2002).

  52. S. X. Wang, N. X. Sun, M. Yamaguchi & S. Yabukami, “Sandwich films: Properties of a new soft magnetic material”, Nature, 407, 150, (2000).

  53. N. X. Sun and S. X. Wang, “Soft high saturation magnetization (Fe0.7Co0.3)1-xNx thin films for inductive write heads”, IEEE Trans. Magn, 36, 2506 (2000).

  54. J. Hong, A. Furukawa, N. X. Sun, and S. X. Wang, "Magnetic properties and high frequency response of high moment FeTaN/AlN laminates for high data rate recording", IEEE Trans. Magn. 35, 2502 (1999).

  55. N. X. Sun and K. Lu, “Grain size limit of polycrystalline materials”, Phys. Rev. B, 59, 5987 (1999).

  56. N. X. Sun, K. Lu and Q. Jiang, “Grain boundary enthalpy of nanocrystalline materials crystallized from the amorphous state”, Phys. Rev. B, 56, 5885 (1997).

  57. K. Lu and N. X. Sun, “Grain boundary enthalpy of the nanocrystalline selenium”, Phil. Mag. Lett. 75, 389 (1997).

  58. H. Lu, N. X. Sun, and Y. C. Zhou, “Superheating of bulk polycrystalline selenium”, Phil. Mag. Lett. 76, 49 (1997).

  59. N. X. Sun, H. Lu, and Y. C. Zhou, “Explanation of the melting behaviour of embedded particles; equilibrium melting point elevation and superheating”, Phil. Mag. Lett, 76, 105 (1997).

  60. Q. Y. Wu, N. X. Sun, Y. C. Wang, X. K. Sun, and Z. Q. Hu, “Microstructure and thermal stability of electrodeposited nano-Nickel”, Chinese. J. Mater. Res. 11, 31 (1997).

  61. N. X. Sun, X. D. Liu, and K. Lu, “Nanocrystallization of amorphous Fe33Zr67 alloys”, Nanostruct. Mater. 7, 637 (1996).

  62. N. X. Sun, X. D. Liu, and K. Lu, “An explanation to the anomalous Avrami exponent”, Scripta Metall. Mater. 34, 1201 (1996).

  63. N. X. Sun and K. Lu, “Heat capacity comparison among the nanocrystalline, amorphous, and coarse-grained polycrystalline states in element selenium”, Phys. Rev. B 54, 6058 (1996).

  64. N. X. Sun, X. D. Liu, and K. Lu, “Apparent crystallization kinetics of a partially amorphous Fe33Zr67 alloy”, Acta Metall. Sinica, 31, B206 (1995).
Conference Proceedings:

  1. J. Lou, M. Liu, R. David, O. Obi, S. Stoute, C. Pettiford and Nian X. Sun, “Novel Multiferroic Materials with Giant Tunability (Invited)”, 33rd International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, Jan 18~23, 2009.

  2. Jing Lou, David Reed, Ming Liu, Carl Pettiford and Nian X. Sun, "Novel Electrostatically Tunable FeGaB/(Si)/PMN-PT Multiferroic Heterostructures for Microwave Application", 2009 International Microwave Symposium (IMS2009), Boston, June 7~12, 2009.

  3. Ming Liu, Ogheneyunum Obi, Jing Lou, Stephen Stoute, and Nian X. Sun, “Multiferroic properties of spin-spray deposited Ni0.23Co0.27Fe2.50O4 ferrite film on PZT substrate”, Intermag Conference 2008, Madrid, Spain, May 4~9, 2008.

  4. N.X. Sun, G.M. Yang, A. Daigle, J. Lou, M. Liu, O. Obi, S. Stoute, C. Pettiford, J.W. Wang, and K. Naishadham, “Electronically Tunable Miniaturized Antennas on Magnetoelectric Substrates with Enhanced Performance”, Intermag Conference 2008, Madrid, Spain, May 4~9, 2008.

  5. C. Pettiford, J. Lou, L. Russell, and N. X. Sun, “Strong magnetoelectric coupling in PZT/FeGaB multiferroic composites”, Intermag Conference 2008, Madrid, Spain, May 4~9, 2008.

  6. G. M. Yang, A. Daigle, X. Xing, J. W. Wang and N. X. Sun, “Miniaturized Bandpass Filter with Self-Biased Magnetic Films,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, July 2~6, 2008, Cambridge, USA.

  7. G. M. Yang, A. Daigle, M. Liu, O. Obi, S. Stoute, K. Naishadham, and N. X. Sun “Planar Circular Loop Antennas with Self-biased Magnetic Film Loading,” IEEE AP-S International Symposium 2008, July 5-12, 2008, San Diego, USA.

  8. Daigle, G. M. Yang, N. X. Sun, J. Grandfield, and K. Naishadham, “Use of Spin Spray Ferrite Films to improve Directivity and Impedance Bandwidth in Patch Antennas Fabricated on High Permittivity Substrates,” IEEE AP-S International Symposium 2008, July 5-12, 2008, San Diego, USA.

  9. G. M. Yang, X. Xing, A. Daigle, M. Liu, O. Obi, S. Stoute, K. Naishadham, and N. X. Sun, “Circular Polarization Antennas with High Permittivity Substrates and Self-biased NiCo-Ferrite Films Loading”, URSI General Assembly 2008, August 7-16, 2008, Chicago, USA.

  10. G.M. Yang, A. Daigle, J. W. Wang, N. X. Sun, and K. Naishadham, Tunable Miniaturized Patch Antennas at 2.1 GHz Using Self-Biased Magnetic Films, 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel metamaterials, March 4-6, 2008, Chiba, Japan.

  11. G. M. Yang, A. Daigle, N. X. Sun, and K. Naishadham, "Circular Polarization GPS Patch Antennas with Self-Biased Magnetic Films", Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, March 24~28, 2008 Hangzhou, China.

  12. H. Imrane and N. X Sun, "Effects of Ar Atmosphere Pressure and B contents on the Soft Magnetism of FeCoB Films”, The 5th International Workshop on High Frequency Micromagnetic Devices and Materials (MMDM5), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA, page 7, (2007).

  13. N. X. Sun and J.W. Wang, "Self-biased Integrated Metal Magnetic Film Coupled Line Circulators for Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC)" The 5th International Workshop on High Frequency Micromagnetic Devices and Materials (MMDM5), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA, page 28, (2007).

  14. N. X. Sun, A. M. Crawford, and S. X. Wang “Advanced soft magnetic materials for recording heads and integrated circuits (invited)”, in “Magnetic and Electronic Films--Microstructure, Texture and Application to Data Storage” Edited by: S.D. Harkness IV, T. Thomson, and L. Tang, MRS Proceedings Vol. 721, E6.3, 2002.

  15. N. X. Sun and S. X. Wang, Chin-Ya Hung, Chester X. Chien and Hua-Ching Tong, “Microstructure and magnetic properties of high saturation magnetization Fe-Co-N thin films (invited)” in “Magnetic Materials, Structure and Processing for Information Storage”, edited by B. J. Daniel, T. P. Nolan, M. A. Seigler, S. X. Wang, and C. B. Murry, MRS Proceedings Vol. 614, F9.2, 2000.
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