NSF-Europe: US - Italian Collabloration: Theoretical and Experimental Development of New Magneto-Electronic Materials

这个nsf -欧洲项目涉及美国西北大学和意大利卡梅里诺大学、L大学、阿奎拉大学和佩鲁贾大学的实验学家和理论家之间的强有力合作。总体重点是室温铁磁半导体自旋电子学的应用。美国工作人员将制备和表征基于mn掺杂黄铜矿的MBE异质结构；意大利工人专注于mn掺杂Ge。有许多辅助仪器可用于研究这些材料。理论是基于第一性原理的密度泛函方法，用于准确预测半导体材料的电子和磁性能。教育方面很强大，包括从本科到高中的各个层次的学生，以及来自美国和意大利大学的学生的交换。学生和博士后将在凝聚态物理和纳米科学的主要当前感兴趣的主题上接受优秀的培训。

This NSF-Europe project involves a strong collaboration between experimentalists and theorists at Northwestern University in the US, and the Universities of Camerino, L,Aquila, and Perugia in Italy. Overall focus is on room temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors for spintronics applications. The US workers will fabricate and characterize MBE heterostructures based on Mn-doped chalcopyrites; Italian workers focus on Mn-doped Ge. There is much complementary instrumentation available to study the materials. Theory is based on first principles density-functional methods that are used to accurately predict both electronic and magnetic properties of the semiconductor materials. The educational aspects are strong, and involve participation of students at all levels from undergraduate up, and with interchanges of students from the US and Italian universities. The students and post-docs will receive excellent training in topics of major current interest in condensed matter physics and nanoscience.