35 YEARS OF
METALLIC SUPERLATTICES
DOE
NSF, AFOSR, ONR
IVAN K. SCHULLER
IEEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
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Thank you
What WE think
of Science
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•Boooooooooring !!!!!!!
•That Is The Subject I Never Understood In High School (College)
•You Must Be Very Intelligent
What the rest of the world thinks
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Bangs
Small Bangs
Big Bangs
MOST DON’T DO THIS
FASCINATING PHYSICS USEFUL
YOU USE IT MILLIONS OF TIMES A DAY
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WHY PHYSICS
My Start
58 YEARS AGO 1957
Cluj, Kolozsvar, Clausenburg
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Lucky to Live in Chile
“Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.”
Lise Meitner
Danny,
Oceanographer
Jonny, Physicist
Jackie,
Teacher
Lucky to Study in Chile
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SOMETHING FROM NOTHING
• Noether’s theorem
Conservation laws from philosophy
• Ginzburg-Landau 2 nd order phase transition
Superconductivity, magnetism ……….
from series expansion
Ask fundamental questions
SYMMETRY AND
CONSERVATION LAWS
Emmy Noether
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Landau-Ginzburg
TAYLOR EXPANSION
Order Parameter:
Superconducting Gap, Magnetization, Distorsion ,
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CRITICAL SLOWING DOWN
TEMPERATURE
Relaxa tion T ime (nsec)
I. K. Schuller and K. E. Gray, PRL36, 429(1976)
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Many Young Friends
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Why do Physics
• Universal behavior
Power Laws
• New Parameters Range
Smaller
• Weird Behavior
Separate Charge and Spin
• Big Questions
What is intelligence
Why do Physics
• Universal behavior
Power Laws
• New Parameters Range
Smaller
• Weird Behavior
Separate Charge and Spin
• Big Questions
What is intelligence
Z. Yang, C. Ko, and S. Ramanathan, Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 41 (2011) 24
Metal-Insulator Transition
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VO 2
338 339 340 341 342 25
10 2 10 3 10 4
R ( )
310 320 330 340 350 360
10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4
R ( )
T (K)
339 340 341 342 2
4 6
R (k )
200 nm
Multiple jumps across the metal- insulator transition
Nano-scale VO 2
R
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Scale Invariance
10 1 10 2 10 3 10 0
10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4
Numb er o f Ju mps
Jump size ( )
100 cycles
Statistics of Jumps
Power law: p(A) A -
p A
40 80 120
0 500 1000 1500 2000
Number of Jumps
Jump Size (
= 2.480.05
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Avalanches
• Triggered and develops
• Many Small avalanches
• A few big ones
UNIVERSALITY
PHYSICS OF
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Power Laws
M. Newman Phys. Today, P. 33 Nov. 2008
Earthquake Magnitude
Connectivity of Internet
JP. Sethna et al., Nature 410, 242 (2001)
Citations (I.K. Schuller)
= 1.2
= 2.1
10 100 1000
1 10 100
Number of Papers
Number of Citations
= 1.7
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~1.3
Sand Piles
Avalanches with Power Laws
Plasma Burst (sun)
Martensites
~2.4
Barkhausen Noise
~2.0
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Why do Physics
• Universal behavior
Power Laws
• New Parameters Range
Smaller
• Weird Behavior
Separate Charge and Spin
• Big Questions
What is intelligence
Nano science
Physics Chemistry
CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH SCALES
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Un homme de six pieds fait sur la terre la meme figure precisement que fait sur une boule de quatre pieds de
circonference un animal qui serait a cette circonference de roue comme
1 est a 91 500 000
Merci Andre Magnan President Soc. Voltaire KVAB, U. de Nanterre
NanoBio
French Theorist
~10nm
NANO VOLT
Francois-Marie Arouet
NANO VOLTAIRE
SCIENCE DRIVEN RESEARCH
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MAGNETO-TRANSPORT
~ 20 % MR
Giant MagnetoResistance- GMR
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April, 1981
In 4 or 5 years, this will be THE field
in materials science.
2007 PHYSICS NOBEL
Grunberg Fert
GIANT
MAGNETORESISTANCE
GMR
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U C T )
T E
APPLICATIONS
Hard disk drives
Sensors
SCIENCE
Co Cu
I
State: +1
State: 0 State: -1
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
-1 0
1 H
FC (kOe) 0.5 2.0 5.0
M / M
SH (kOe)
GMR SPIN
TORQUE EXCHANGE
BIAS
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Nanoscience
(when things get small)
TunnelSchroedv8_1-desktop.m4v
e -
charge
electronics
magnetism electron
Spin-electronics or
Spintronics
spin
Basic Research=Transformative Technology 44
Why do Physics
• Universal behavior
Power Laws
• New Parameters Range
Smaller
• Weird Behavior
Separate Charge and Spin
• Big Questions
What is intelligence
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THE REAL
CHESHIRE CAT
Went away and
left behind his smile
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FM FM
NM I
V
NON-LOCAL SPIN VALVE
FM: ferromagnetic NM: non-magnetic
Decouple
SPIN current from CHARGE current
I
A Crazy experiment
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Sample
0.5µm 1µm
FM
NM FM
Photolithography + Au contacts
Py/Cu/Py Co/Al/Co
-800 -600 -400 -200 0 200 400 600 800 -1.0
-0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
I=0.5 mA
T=4.2 K
Py/Cu/Py
V/| I |( m )
H (Oe)
-800 -600 -400 -200 0 200 400 600 800 -1.0
-0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
I=0.5 mA
T=4.2 K
Py/Cu/Py
V/| I|( m )
H (Oe)
-800 -600 -400 -200 0 200 400 600 800 -1.0
-0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
I=0.5 mA
T=4.2 K
Py/Cu/Py
V/| I|( m )
H (Oe)