Our research focuses on the interactions of electron spins
and photons in semiconductor nanostructures for potential
applications in novel spintronic and optoelectronic devices.
Interested in joining our research group? Click here to find out more.
Group News:
Oct. 2009: UROP students Anchal Agarwal, Kevin Carpenter, and Milly Milfort have joined the group - Welcome!
July 2009: Vanessa receives a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.
May 2009: Michael Wang and Nathan McKay join the group as Intel/UROP Summer Researchers.
May 2009: Tim is a co-recipient of the 2009 Peter Franken Award.
April 2009: Vanessa presented at the 55th Midwest Solid State Conference at the University of Iowa, April 18-19.
Jan. 2009: Physics graduate student Ben Norman has joined the group - Welcome!
Jan. 2009: Applied Physics graduate student Chris Trowbridge has joined the group - Welcome!
Dec. 2008: Our lab renovation is complete! Click here for pictures.
Nov. 2008: Physics graduate student Tim Saucer has joined the group - Welcome!
Sept. 2008: Undergraduate students Nathan McKay, Melissa Zabel, and Matthew Weiss have joined the group - Welcome!
Image of spin accumulation at the edge of a semiconductor channel due to the spin Hall effect.
For more information, please see:
A Hall of Spin
Vanessa Sih, Yuichiro Kato and David D. Awschalom
Physics World, November 2005, 33-36
Spatial imaging of the spin Hall effect and current-induced spin
polarization in two-dimensional electron gases
V. Sih, R. C. Myers, Y. K. Kato, W. H. Lau, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom
Nature Physics 1, 31-35 (2005)
(cond-mat/0506704)
[Nature Physics: In This Issue]
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