AIP Scilight: A magnetic trick for treating neurological disorders

Congratulations to Diqing and coauthors. Their joint work published on Journal of Applied Physics was featured by AIP Scilight. "An implantable nanodevice may be the solution to current neuron stimulation techniques, which have limited range and require inconvenient, high-power equipment.", said Anashe Bandari.

Link to AIP Scilight "A magnetic trick for treating neurological disorders".

Link to JAP paper: "Tunable magnetic domain walls for therapeutic neuromodulation at cellular level: Stimulating neurons through magnetic domain walls," by Diqing Su, Kai Wu, Renata Saha, and Jian-Ping Wang, Journal of Applied Physics (2019).

Prof. Jian-Ping Wang Honored with 2019 SRC Technical Excellence Award

Congratulations to Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Robert F. Hartmann Chair in Electrical Engineering, Jian-Ping Wang on being awarded the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award for 2019. The award recognizes his “innovations and discoveries in nanomagnetics and novel materials that accelerated the production of magnetic random-access memories.”

SRC news release

ECE news release

Diqing and Renata receive best poster awards at IEM19 Annual Retreat!

Congratulations to Diqing and Renata! They won the best poster awards at the IEM19 Annual Conference.

Diqing's poster title is "Large-Scale, High-Resolution Brain Sensing with Flexible Magnetic Nanosensors"

Renata's poster title is "Highly Tunable, Ultra-Low Power, Cellular-Level, Magnetic Neurostimulation Through Flexible Spintronic Nanostructures"

Renata receives BTP Travel Award!

Renata has been awarded a travel grant for her presentation at MMM 2019 by the Brain Tumor Program (BTP) of the UMN. Renata will be presenting her work “A Highly Tunable Skyrmion-based Neurostimulator (SkyNS) for Low-Power Cellular-Level Implantable Magnetic Stimulation” and its relation to implantable brain stimulation and related tumor therapy.

Congratulations, Renata!

Diqing is awarded the 2019 IEM Engineering in Medicine Doctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Diqing! She is selected as a recipient of the 2019 IEM Engineering in Medicine Doctoral Fellowship. We wish you all the best in your professional development.

Onri is featured on the cover of Winds of Change

Congratulations to Onri, he is recently featured on the US national magazine Winds of Change.

Check out his story here.

Diqing Receives CEMS Outstanding TA award

Diqing receives the CEMS TA award in Spring 2019 semester for teaching the course MATS 4301W:  Materials Processing (Instructor: David Poerschke). Congratulations Diqing!

Prof. Wang on the 2019 Innovator Award as entrepreneurial researcher!

Congratulations Prof. Jian-Ping Wang on the 2019 Innovator Award as entrepreneurial researcher!

The Innovation Awards recognize the accomplishments of outstanding University innovators who have demonstrated an entrepreneurial spirit, are actively engaged in developing new innovations and transitioning those technologies to the commercial market and have made an impact on society.

Graduation of Dr. Mahendra D.C.!

Congratulations to Mahendra D.C., who has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on January 25. His dissertation topic is High Charge-to-Spin and Spin-to-Charge Conversion Enhanced by Quantum Confinement in Sputtered Topological Insulator Thin Films. 

Our best wishes to Dr. Mahendra D.C. as he joins Stanford University!

Prof. Jian-Ping Wang To Lead A $10.3 Million Spintronic Materials And Devices Research Center

Center will bring together top experts in the field

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/13/2018) — The University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering announced today that it will lead and house a new $10.3 million Center for Spintronic Materials in Advanced Information Technologies (SMART) focused on novel materials for advanced computing systems over the next four years. 

This center is supported through the Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) consortium. The key sponsors include the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), 12 semiconductor industry sponsors, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The center will include researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Georgetown University, and the University of Maryland.

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