About Our Research
Since mid-1990s the majority of Buhrman’s research activities have been in spintronics and thin film nanomagnetism. Contributions in this area include the pioneering, definitive demonstration of reversible spin transfer torque switching of thin film nanomagnets[i], the ability of spin transfer torque to excite nanoscale magnetic structures, including magnetic vortices[ii], into persistent microwave precession, and the early demonstration that spin torque can be successfully utilized with magnetic tunnel junctions[iii], despite the rather high tunnel current densities that are required. These works played a seminal role in the initiation of the current worldwide industrial effort to realize a new high performance… Read more about our research
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Come Celebrate with Us!
Come Celebrate with Us! Buhrman: The First 50 Years at Cornell A Symposium Celebrating the Research of Professor Robert Buhrman Saturday, October 14,...
Yongxi Ou presents invited talk
Yongxi Ou presents invited talk on “Fast, efficient and reliable spin-orbit switching of W-based three terminal magnetic tunnels,” at: The 3rd (ImPACT) International Symposium on Spintronic Memory, Circuit and Storage, Sendai Japan, Sept. 23-25,...
Congratulations Graham and Everyone
Congratulations to Graham and everyone, on publication of our paper “Nanosecond magnetization dynamics during spin Hall switching of in-plane magnetic tunnel junctions,” G.E. Rowlands, S..V. Aradhya, S. Shi, E. H. Yandel, J. Oh, D. C. Ralph, R. A. Buhrman, Applied...
