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American physicist

Sara A. Majetich is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work considers magnetic nanoparticles and nanostructures for application in spintronic devices. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Early life and education[edit]

Majetich started her scientific career at Princeton University where she majored in chemistry. After graduating she moved to Columbia University, where she worked toward a master’s degree in physical chemistry.[1] Majetich was a doctoral student at the University of Georgia, where she studied phonon dynamics in ruby.[2] After earning her doctorate Majetich moved to Cornell University, where she worked as postdoctoral research associate. In 1992 she was awarded an National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award.[3]

Research and career[edit]

In 1995 Majetich joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. She was promoted to Professor of Physics in 1998. Majetich studies magnetic nanoparticles for magnetic imaging and magnetic data storage. These nanoparticles have very uniform sizes (i.e. they are monodisperse), which means that they can form arrays.[3] She made use of magnetic transmission electron microscopy (Lorentz microscopy)[4] to study the collective behaviour of magnetic nanoparticles, and showed that structural disorder disrupts self-assembly into ordered domains and can result in spin-glass dynamics.[5] As nanoparticles assembly into ordered arrays various phase transitions can be expected, such as superparamagnetic to ferromagnetic and insulator to metal.[3][6]

To this end, she developed a nano-masking process which allows for the transfer of patterns into multi-layer magnetic films.[7] This process involves argon-ion milling to transfer the pattern of metal oxide nanoparticles into oriented, multi-layer thin films and magnetic tunnel junctions.[8]

Majetich pioneered the use of conductive atomic force microscopy to measure magnetoresistance.[9]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b “2007 Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers”. www.ieeemagnetics.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  2. ^ Majetich, Sara (1987). Phonon dynamics in alexandrite and ruby (Thesis). OCLC 17630187.
  3. ^ a b c d University, Carnegie Mellon. “Sara Majetich – Department of Physics – Carnegie Mellon University”. www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  4. ^ “NSF Award Search: Award # 9900550 – Coercivity of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites”. www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  5. ^ “Seeing and Moving Magnetic Nanoparticles – Sara Majetich – Physics”. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  6. ^ Sara A. Majetich, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, retrieved 2021-06-07
  7. ^ “C-SPIN: Sara Majetich”. cspin.umn.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  8. ^ Sachan, M; Bonnoit, C; Hogg, C; Evarts, E; Bain, J A; Majetich, S A; Park, J-H; Zhu, J-G (2008-06-19). “Self-assembled nanoparticle arrays as nanomasks for pattern transfer”. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 41 (13): 134001. Bibcode:2008JPhD…41m4001S. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/41/13/134001. ISSN 0022-3727. S2CID 95907779.
  9. ^ “CAFM”. Majetich Research Group. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  10. ^ “APS Fellow Archive”. www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  11. ^ University, Carnegie Mellon. “Recognition – Department of Physics – Carnegie Mellon University”. www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  12. ^ University, Carnegie Mellon (2016-12-01). “Sara Majetich named IEEE Fellow – Department of Physics – Carnegie Mellon University”. www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)