ChE PhD Student Negar Hamedani Golshan Accepted into 2016 IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School
Negar Hamedani Golshan, a 4th year chemical engineering PhD student, has been chosen to attend, with a full scholarship from NSF, the 2016 IEEE Summer School of Magnetics Society at Tohoku University in Japan. This application included a proposal and a letter of recommendation from her advisor, Prof. Katherine Ziemer. The IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School is held annually, involving lectures by international experts and poster presentations by participating graduate students from all parts of the world. The program covers fundamentals and advanced topics in magnetism. Support will be provided for approximately 75 students based on a competitive application.
Negar’s research at Northeastern involves engineering surfaces in order to integrate wide bandgap semiconductors with functional oxides, specifically Fe3O4. Spinel ferrite Fe3O4 has a high Curie temperature of 858K and is predicted to possess half-metallic properties, such as ~ 100% spin polarization at the Fermi level, which can lead to ultrahigh tunneling magnetoresistance at room temperature. She works to understand the key magnetic and electron transport properties in addition to understand how crystal structure and film orientation affect the magnetic properties of the Fe3O4 film. This understanding will enable the development of processing strategies and ultimately lead to enhance the performance of today’s spintronic devices such as the spin field effect transistor (S-FET).