Grants:

• NSF
• Congressional ($2,000,000), renewable
• DARPA ($200,000)

Projects:

• Negative index materials
• In-plane inductors
• Artificial growth of spinel ferrite

Magnetic Materials under research

• Magnetic thin films: Spinel, Barium Hexagonal
• Magnetic powder
• Transition metal oxide
• Magnetic Alloys
• Metal nanoparticles

Growth Technique:

• Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD)
• Liquid phase epitaxial (LPE)
• Ceramic growth procedure: Ball milling, etc.
• Sputtering
• Spin-sputtering
• Electro-plating

Characterization Technique:

• Ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy (FMR)
• Vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM)
• Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer
• Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analysis
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
• X-ray magnetic circular dichorism (XMCD)
• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)

Application:

• Microwave Circulator
• Self-biased in plane microwave devices