News

Roland Kawakami part of team that discovers "Atomic Collapse" resonances in artificial nuclei on graphene (2013)
Adrian Swartz pioneers the growth of ferromagnetic insulator EuO on graphene (2012)
Kathy McCreary and Adrian Swartz utilize spin transport to provide direct evidence for defect-induced magnetic moments in graphene as well as the first observation of exchange fields. (2012)
Jared Wong discovers the electric field control of the Verwey transition in magnetite (2012)
Adrian Swartz, Jared Wong, and Igor Pinchuk develop the growth of EuO on TiO₂ electrostatic templates (2012)
Congratulations to Kathy McCreary for winning an APS Ovshinsky Award (2012)
Congratulations to Kathy McCreary for being named a NRC postdoctoral fellow (2012)
Congratulations to Wei Han for winning an APS-GMAG dissertation award (2012)
Congratulations to alumnus Yan Li for being named a LANL Director's postdoctoral fellow (2011)
Spin relaxation exhibits different behavior in single layer and bilayer graphene (2011)
Kawakami group to lead multi-campus effort on Graphene Spin Logic, funded by NSF-NRI "Nanoelectronics Beyond 2020" program (2011)
Successful realization of tunneling spin injection into graphene paves the way for a graphene spin computer (2010)
Researchers observe evidence for quantum confinement in ultrathin Fe₃O₄ films (2010)
Integration of ferromagnetic insulator EuO with GaAs enables new routes for manipulating spin in semiconductors (2010)
Metal dopants are used to manipulate the spin transport in graphene (2010)
Researchers observe mobility enhancement due to metallic cluster formation on graphene (2010)
Successful growth of epitaxial MgO on Ge(001) (Jan. 2010)
Congratulations to graduate student Wei Han for winning the 2009 Leo Falicov Award (Nov. 2009). Highlighted in Inside UCR on Jan. 13, 2010.
Decorating graphene transistors with transition metals (Aug. 2009)
Atomically engineered interfaces produce 90-degree magnetic coupling (May 2009)
Breaking electron-hole symmetry in graphene spin valves (Apr. 2009)
Ultrathin insulating barriers on graphene (Nov. 2008)
Congratulations to former postdoctoral researcher Wei-Hua Wang who is starting a new laboratory at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (July 2008)
Reversal of spin-polarization in semiconductors with non-magnetic spacers (June 2008).
"Discovery by UCR Physicists Could Enable Development of Faster Computers" in UCR Newsroom (June 23, 2008)
Demonstration of spin transport in mesoscopic graphite (Jan. 2008)