The Samarth Research Group

Semiconductor Spintronics & Quantum Information

Contact Information

Group Leader:

Dr. Nitin Samarth:

nsamarth@ psu.edu

Webmaster:

Avinash Samarth:

avsam@ mac.com

Group
Current Members

Benjamin Cooley	Andrew Balk	William J. Fadgen	Xia Li


Gang Xiang	Meng Zhu	Tina Lin	Partho Mitra
Alumni
Graduate Students: Wei-Hua Wang (Ph.D. 2005) Keh-Chiang Ku (Ph.D. 2004) Joseph Berry (Ph.D. 2001) Oindrilla Ray (Ph.D. 2000) Rob Knobel (Ph.D. 2000) Frank Flack (Ph.D. 1999) Yulia Smorchkova (Ph.D. 1998)			Post Docs: Seung Hyun Chun Oleg Maksimov Khalid Eid

Recent Highlights

Recent experiments carried out with Schiffer's group have revealed key phenomena in the science of disorder through the artificial simulation of magnetic moments of ions, known as "spin ice."
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We have developed new nanoscale structures with the potential for spin-based information storage -- an important step in the field of quantum information and spintronics.
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