Director
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Lincoln
NE
68588-0113
United States
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Background
Evgeny Tsymbal is a Charles Bessey Professor at the Department of Physics and
Astronomy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and the Director of the
UNL`s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). He joined
UNL in 2002 as an Associate Professor, was promoted to a Full Professor with
Tenure in 2005 and named a Charles Bessey Professor of Physics in 2009. Prior
to his appointment at UNL he was a research scientist at University of Oxford,
United Kingdom, a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at
the Research Center-Jülich, Germany, and a research scientist at Russian
Academy of Sciences and Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia.
Evgeny Tsymbal`s research is focused on computational materials science
aiming at the understanding of fundamental properties of advanced ferromagnetic
and ferroelectric nanostructures and materials relevant to nanoelectronics and
spintronics – relatively new research fields promising revolutionize electronic
and data storage industries. First-principles calculations along with model
approaches are employed to address a wide range of immensely challenging problems
on different levels of complexity. An important ingredient of the research is
a strong link to experimental investigations being performed at the University
of Nebraska and in other academic and industrial laboratories throughout the
world. Some of the recent research activities include:
- magnetoelectric effects at interfaces
- ferroelectric and multiferroic tunnel junctions
- two-dimensional electron gases at oxide interfaces
- spin-dependent tunneling and tunneling magnetoresistance
- resonant effects in quantum transmission
- spin injection into semiconductors
- interlayer exchange coupling in magnetic layered structures
- ballistic conductance of magnetic nanocontacts and nanowires
- domain-wall resistance in constrained geometries
- anisotropic magnetoresistance in tunnel and break junctions
- ferroelectric properties of thin films
Evgeny Tsymbal`s research is internationally recognized, which is reflected
in publications in high profile scientific journals such as Science, Nature
Nanotechnology and Physical Review Letters, and invited presentations at international
conferences such as American Physical Society and Materials Research Society
Meetings, and Vacuum Research Society, European Society and Gordon Research
Conferences. Evgeny Tsymbal has been a principal investigator of research projects
funded by the National Science Foundation, Seagate Technology, Nanoelectronics
Research Initiative of Semiconductor Research Corporation, and the Office of
Naval Research. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of
the Institute of Physics, UK, and a recipient of the UNL`s College of
Arts & Sciences Outstanding Research and Creativity Award (ORCA) in 2007.