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Welcome to the Ross Group | Magnetic Materials & Devices Welcome to the Ross Group Home About Research Personnel Equipment Social Publications Papers Patents Outreach Contact Us Home About - Research - Personnel - Equipment - Social Publications - Papers - Patents Outreach Contact Us We are a research group in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering working on Magnetic Materials and Devices and Self-Assembly. Check out our research below or use the menu bar above to navigate the site! Magnetic, Spintronic and Multiferroic Oxides and Nanocomposites We produce functional oxide films using pulsed laser deposition, including combinatorial synthesis. This includes rare earth iron garnet films; magnetically substituted perovskites; and nanocomposite oxides consisting of a two-phase epitaxial structure with properties arising from both phases. We investigate spintronic properties such as spin orbit torque switching in heavy metal/garnet films; magnetooptical, multiferroic and magnetoelectric behavior; and thermal transport and ferroelectricity in oxide films. Read More Magnetic and Magnetooptical Devices and Nanostructures We design magnetic devices and nanostructures and fabricate them using sputtering and pulsed laser deposition combined with electron beam lithography and block copolymer lithography. Our studies include the magnetic reversal of small structures and the behavior of domain walls in confined geometries; domain wall logic devices for memory, logic and neural networks; and magnetooptical isolators which act as diodes to manipulate the flow of light in photonic integrated circuits. Read More Block Copolymer Self-Assembly We study the self-assembly of block copolymers in order to fabricate functional nanostructures with highly controlled architecture and chemistry. The regular geometrical microdomains formed by block copolymers are useful for many applications including nanolithography, where the microdomains are used as etch masks for making nanoscale functional structures such as interconnects or magnetic dot and wire arrays. We develop methods for directed self-assembly: precisely controling the position and shape of nm-scale microdomains via substrate patterning, and we explore microphase separation in complex architectures such as multiblock and brush copolymers. Read More Latest News By rossgroup August 15, 2018 Congratulations to Dr Kun-Hua Tu and Dr Shuchi Ojha, June 2018. About the Principal Investigator Caroline Ross is the Associate Department Head and Toyota Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. She did her PhD at Cambridge University in the UK, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. She worked on research and development of hard disks in silicon valley before joining MIT in 1997. Her group works on magnetic materials and devices, and self-assembly of block copolymers and other materials. Outside Links MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering MIT Nanostructures Laboratory Developed by Think Up Themes Ltd . Powered by Wordpress ....