November 8, 2019
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".
October 31, 2019
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.”
September 24, 2019
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"
September 23, 2019
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!
July 30, 2019
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.
July 16, 2019
Congratulations to Onri, he is recently featured on the US national magazine Winds of Change.
Check out his story here.
July 2, 2019
Diqing receives the CEMS TA award in Spring 2019 semester for teaching the course MATS 4301W: Materials Processing (Instructor: David Poerschke). Congratulations Diqing!
April 10, 2019
January 26, 2019
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!
November 13, 2018
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.