PIRE The Spin Triangle - Athens, Ohio; Hamburg, Germany; and Buenos Aires, Argentina: Advancing Nanospintronics and Nanomagnetism

旋转三角-雅典，俄亥俄州；德国汉堡;和阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯：推进纳米自旋电子学和纳米磁学在这项国际研究和教育伙伴关系奖中，俄亥俄大学将开展三方国际合作，包括俄亥俄大学的纳米尺度和量子现象研究所；德国汉堡大学应用物理研究所；以及阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯大学和布宜诺斯艾利斯原子中心的凝聚态理论研究小组。他们将形成一个集中、整合和互补的合作，在全球舞台上引领纳米级自旋电子学研究。美国团队将与汉堡的扫描探针方法小组合作，专门研究自旋极化扫描探针显微镜，由Roland wies危害教授领导，以及布宜诺斯艾利斯的凝聚态理论小组，专门研究从头计算，由Ana Maria Llois， Andrea Barral和Mariana Weissmann教授领导。该奖项将帮助培养下一代从事全球工作的科学家和工程师，大约10名物理学本科生，10名物理学研究生和4名博士后研究人员将获得资助，在五年的课程中与德国和阿根廷合作伙伴一起在国外进行研究。俄亥俄大学将颁发国际纳米科学研究本科证书和国际纳米科学研究研究生证书，以记录这些学生将接受的培训。此外，该项目还将涉及10名科学新闻专业的学生，他们每人将进行为期一年的实习，以获得独特的国际科学接触。整个项目旨在通过积极的国际合作，包括实验和理论，拓宽学生的视野。纳米自旋电子学和纳米磁学有望彻底改变电子/计算机工业。在不久的将来，利用电子自旋有望制造出更小、更强大、更节能的电子设备。要做到这一点，我们必须了解纳米级自旋电子学的基础科学。因此，该项目的最终科学目标是控制和操纵电子自旋，以实现新的设备功能，并实现基本的理解。为此，人们需要了解电子自旋在扩展系统中是如何分布或筛选的，自旋是如何传输的，以及随后如何控制和操纵自旋。使用自旋极化扫描隧道显微镜直接成像原子极限下的自旋是控制、操纵和工程自旋电子结构的第一步。分子束外延技术允许各种自旋电子结构的“自然”工程，从2D扩展层（原子片）到局部2D岛屿、1D（链）和0D（点）纳米结构的形成。另一方面，使用扫描隧道显微镜的原子/分子操作允许自旋电子纳米结构的“受控”工程（包括形状、大小和组成）。这些技术的结合将为自旋电子纳米结构的制造和研究提供强有力的实验方法。本项目得到美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室和材料研究部的支持。

Smith 0730257PIRE The Spin Triangle - Athens, Ohio; Hamburg, Germany; and Buenos Aires, Argentina: Advancing Nanospintronics and NanomagnetismIn this Partnerships for International Research and Education award, Ohio University will develop a 3-way international collaboration involving the Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute at Ohio University; the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Hamburg in Germany; and the condensed matter theory research groups at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Centro Atomico Constituyentes Buenos Aires in Argentina. They will form a focused, integrated, and complementary collaboration to lead nanoscale spintronics research on the global stage. The U.S. team will collaborate with the scanning probe methods group in Hamburg specializing in spin-polarized scanning probe microscopy, led by Professor Roland Wiesendanger, and with the condensed matter theory group in Buenos Aires specializing in ab-initio calculations, led by Professors Ana Maria Llois, Andrea Barral, and Mariana Weissmann. This award will help to train the next generation of globally engaged scientists and engineers, as approximately ten physics undergraduate students, ten physics graduate students, and four postdoctoral researchers will be funded to conduct research abroad with the German and Argentinean partners over the five-year course of the award. Ohio University will develop an Undergraduate Certificate in International Nanoscience Research and a Graduate Certificate in International Nanoscience Research to document the training that these students will receive. In addition, the project will also involve ten science journalism students, who will each perform one-year internships in which they will gain unique international science exposure. The project overall is designed to broaden students' perspectives through an active international collaboration that includes both experiment and theory.Nanospintronics and nanomagnetism promise to revolutionize the electronics/computer industry. Smaller yet more powerful and energy efficient electronic devices are expected to be fabricated by exploiting electron spin in the near future. To achieve this, one must understand the fundamental science underlying spintronics at the nanoscale. Thus, the ultimate scientific goal of the project is to control and manipulate the electron spin for novel device functionalities as well as to achieve fundamental understanding. To this end, one needs to understand how electron spin is distributed or screened in extended systems, how spins are transported, and subsequently how spin can be controlled and manipulated. Direct imaging of spins at the atomic limit using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy is one of the first steps toward control, manipulation, and engineering of spintronic structures. The molecular beam epitaxy technique allows 'natural' engineering of various spintronic structures from 2D extended layers (atomic sheets) to the formation of localized 2D islands, 1D (chains), and 0D (dot) nanostructures. On the other hand, atom/molecule manipulation using scanning tunneling microscopy allows 'controlled' engineering (including shape, size, and composition) of spintronic nanostructures. The combination of these techniques will thus provide a powerful experimental approach to spintronic nanostructure fabrication and investigation. This project receives support from NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering and Division of Materials Research.