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

NSF-欧洲：美国-意大利合作：新型磁电子材料的理论和实验开发

• 批准号: 0244711
• 负责人: Arthur Freeman
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0244711&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Europe; US; Italian; Collabloration

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.

这个 NSF 欧洲项目涉及美国西北大学以及意大利卡梅里诺大学、拉奎拉大学和佩鲁贾大学的实验学家和理论学家之间的密切合作。 总体重点是用于自旋电子学应用的室温铁磁半导体。 美国工作人员将制造基于锰掺杂黄铜矿的 MBE 异质结构并对其进行表征；意大利工人专注于掺锰锗。 有许多补充仪器可用于研究这些材料。 理论基于第一原理密度泛函方法，用于准确预测半导体材料的电子和磁性特性。 教育方面很强，涉及从本科以上各级学生的参与，以及来自美国和意大利大学的学生的交流。 学生和博士后将在凝聚态物理和纳米科学领域当前主要感兴趣的主题上接受良好的培训。