seed projects

Tony Low, Chris Bartel, Bharat Jalan, Andre Mkhoyan, Jian-Ping Wang, Xiaojia Wang: Transition Metal Oxides for Energy Efficient Spintronics

Survey of experimentally demonstrated pyrochlore and spinel compounds targeted for experimental exploration in this Seed.

This Seed team seeks to rethink traditional magnetic materials, and dramatically advance the purposeful theoretical design, growth, and characterization of an emerging class of topological magnetic materials - magnetic Weyl semimetals (MWS) - for their application in energy-efficient spintronics. The goal of the Seed is to design, grow, and experimentally demonstrate flatband MWS materials with giant anomalous Hall effect, which will lay the foundation for the purposeful design of topological magnetic materials for energy-efficient spintronic devices.

Funded by the National Science Foundation through the University of Minnesota MRSEC under Award Number DMR-2011401