8/18/2024: Chris delivered an invited presentation in San Diego, CA today, at the SPIE Spintronics symposium. The talk featured work led by Ben on the optimization of metallic non-local spin valves for reader spin accumulation sensors.
7/26/2024: Congratulations to Justin Ramberger! Justin defended his thesis today on spin transport in novel light metals and alloys.
5/29/2024: Yeon presented his work at the IPRIME meeting this week, on the use of MN natural resources for pyrite photovoltaics.
5/21/2024: The group will present multiple posters this week at the Center for Quantum materials workshop on campus. The presentations will feature the group’s work on delafossites.
5/6/2024: Yi “Johnny” Zhang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today, on the origins of the ultrahigh conductivity of the metallic delafossite PdCoO2. Congratulations Johnny!
3/4/2024: The Leighton Group will be well represented at the APS March Meeting this week, in our home town of Minneapolis, MN. Ben, Jerry, Nileena, Justin, Yu, Fred, and Johnny are all delivering talks.
1/14/2024: Chris delivered an invited talk today at the PCSI meeting in Santa Fe, NM, on the group’s recent work on metallic delafossite materials.