Professor Vitali Metlushko, Director of the Nanotechnology Core Facility (The NCF UIC).

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: IEEE (Senior Member), IEEE-Magnetic, IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS), Materials Research Society (MRS)

Session Chair, Session “Spin Excitations and Transport in Nanostructures’, 47th Conference on Magnetism & Magnetic Materials (MMM’02), November 11-15, Tampa, FL

Session Chair, Session “Patterned Films”, The 2003 IEEE International Magnetics Conference (Intermag 2003), Boston, MA, March 30 - April 3, 2003

Session Chair Session “Magnetic Thin Films”, 2003 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 21-25, 2003

Advising Committee, International Conference on Nanoscale Devices & System Integration (IEEE-NDSI), Miami, Florida, February 15-19, 2004.

Advisory Board, The Second Conference on Nanoscale Devices & System Integration (IEEE-NDSI 2005) Houston, Texas, on April 4-6, 2005.

Session Chair, Hybrid Superconducting Systems, The Joint International Workshop on Nanostructured Superconductors: From fundamentals to applications, Bad Münstereifel, Germany, 15-19. May 2004

Session Chair, Session “Spin Dynamics and FMR in Magnetic Nanostructures’, 50th Conference on Magnetism & Magnetic Materials (MMM 2005), October 30-November 3, 2005, San Jose, CA.

A founding member of the Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM ANL) User Organization Executive Committee

Nanopatterning Search Committee Member of the Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM ANL)

Reviewer for National Science Foundation, DOE, DOD, European Science Foundation, Referee for Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Pannelist for the NSF

The results of Prof. Metlushko’s work were presented at all major international conferences - 82 presentations in last 5 years, 18 invited talks. During the last two years Prof. Metlushko was Invited Speaker at 5 International Conferences in the US, Europe and Japan.

According SPIN Scitation Database, Prof. Metlushko’s work has been cited 170 times in the last 3 years.

Professor Metlushko published 135 articles in refereed journals (principal author and contributor to work). During the past five years his NSF and DOE supported work resulted in 51 articles in refereed journals (including 12 articles in Applied Physics Letters, 11 articles in Physical Review B) and 15 invited talks. The most recent article was published in 2006 February issue of Physical Review Letters (Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047401 (2006)).

Prof. Metlushko was a recipient of 2005 UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, he was Science Policy Office of Prime Minister Fellow, Belgium (1993-1994) and DAAD Fellow, Germany (1992-1993).

• Summary of Research

  • Spintronics and Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM)
  • Superconducting Nano-Devices (antidots) and Electronics

  Our Team at ECE UIC

  • Anand S Mani
  • Dmitriy Bolotin
  • DmitriyYemelyanov

  Our work has been done in collaboration with the Materials Science Division's (MSD), the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) and the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Katholieke Univesiteit Leuven, Belgium, University of Notre Dame, NIST, Universita` di Ferrara, Italy, Inter-University Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC), Belgium, Cornell University, McGill University and University of Alberta, Canada.
  
  Quick Access to Our 2006 Publications

  • 1. Coherent Inelastic Light Scattering from a Microwave-Excited Array of Magnetic Particles, M. Grimsditch, F. Y. Fradin, Y. Ji, A. Hoffmann, R. E. Camley, V. Metlushko, and V. Novosad, Physical Reviw Letters 96, 047401 (2006)
  • 2. Vortex rotation control in Permalloy disks with small circular voids, P. Vavassori, R. Bovolenta, V. Metlushko, and B. Ilic, J. Appl. Phys. 99, 053902 (2006)
  • 3. Layer-resolved study of magnetic interaction effects in heterostructure dot arrays, Y. Choi, D. R. Lee, J. W. Freeland, G. Srajer, and V. Metlushko, 1. Applied Physics Letters 88, 112502 (2006)
  • 4. In-plane anisotropy of coercive field in permalloy square ring arrays, A. V. Goncharov, A. A. Zhukov, V. V. Metlushko, G. Bordignon, H. Fangohr, G. Karapetrov, B. Ilic, and P. A. J. de Groot, 1. Journal of Applied Physics 99, 08Q508 (2006)
  • 5. Observation of azimuthal ferromagnetic resonance modes in 1.0 µm diameter Permalloy rings, Xiaobin Zhu, Zhigang Liu, Vitali Metlushko, L. Giovannini, F. Montoncello, F. Nizzoli, and Mark R. Freeman, Journal of Applied Physics 99, 08F307 (2006)
  • 6. Frustrated magnetic vortices in a triad of permalloy rings: Magneto-optical Kerr effect, magnetic force microscopy, and micromagnetic simulations V. Rose, K. Buchanan, S. H. Chung, M. Grimsditch, V. Metlushko, A. Hoffmann, V. Novosad, S. D. Bader, H. Ibach, Physical Review B 73, 094442 (2006)
  • 7. Effect of Controlled Asymmetry on the Switching Characteristics of Ring-Based MRAM Design, A. S. Mani, D. Geerpuram, V. S. Baskaran, V. Metlushko, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 5, 249 – 254 (2006)

    Access to Our 2005 Publications

    • 1. Magnetoresistance of single magnetic vortices, P. Vavassori, M. Grimsditch, V. Metlushko, N. Zaluzec, and B. Ilic, Applied Physics Letters 86, 072507 (2005)
    • 2. Diffracted magneto-optical Kerr effects of permalloy ring arrays, Xiaobin Zhu, Z. Liu, M. R. Freeman, and V. Metlushko, Journal of Applied Physics 97, 10J712 (2005)
    • 3. Self-assembly routes towards creating superconducting and magnetic arrays, 1. A.A.Zhukov, E.T.Filby, A.V.Goncharov, M.A.Ghanem, P.N.Bartlett, R. Boardman, H.Fangohr, V.V.Metlushko, V. Novosad, G. Karapetrov and P. A. J. de Groot, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 139, (2005)
    • 4. Broadband spin dynamics of the magnetic vortex state: Effect of the pulsed field direction, X. Zhu, Z. Liu, V. Metlushko, P. Grütter, M. R Freeman, Physical Review B 71, Rapid Communications, 180408 (2005)
    • 5. Observation of azimuthal ferromagnetic resonance modes in 1.0 µm diameter Permalloy rings, 1. X. Zhu, M. Malac, Z. Liu, H. Qian, V. Metlushko, and M. R. Freeman, Applied Physics Letters 86, 262502 (2005)
    • 6. Magnetic QCA systems, G. H. Bernstein, A. Imre, V. Metlushko, Lili Ji, A. Orlov, L. Zhou, G. Csaba, W. Porod, , MICROELECTRONICS JOURNAL 36 (7): 619-624 JUL 2005
    • 7. Control of magnetic vortex chirality in square ring micromagnets, A. Libál, M. Grimsditch, V. Metlushko, P. Vavassori, and B. Jankó, Journal of Applied Physics 98, 083904 (2005)
      
      
      Access to Our 2004 Publications
      
      
      • 1. Experimental test of the self-organized criticality of vortices in superconductors, V. K. Vlasko-Vlasov, U. Welp, V. Metlushko, and G. W. Crabtree, Physical Review B 69, 140504 (2004)
      • 2. Patterned bilayer films as a new class of superconducting wire networks, L. E. De Long , S. Kryukov , V. V. Metlushko , V. V. Moshchalkov and Y. Bruynseraede, Physica C 404, 123 (2004)
      • 3. Commensurability effects induced by a periodic array of nanoscale anti-dots in Nb superconductor, A. A. A. Zhukov, E. T. Filby , P. A. J. de Groot , V. V. Metlushko and B. Ilic, Physica C 404, May 1st, 166 (2004)
      • 4. Vortex state in magnetic rings, A. Subramani , D. Geerpuram , A. Domanowski , V. Baskaran and V. Metlushko, Physica C 404, May 1st, 241 (2004)
      • 5. Self-assembled epitaxial magnetic lateral structures on Ru: Controlling the shape and placement, Ruihua Cheng, J. Pearson, H. F. Ding, Vitali Metlushko, S. D. Bader, F. Y. Fradin, and Dongqi Li, Physical Review B 69, 184409 (2004)
      • 6. Magnetization reversal via single and double vortex states in submicron Permalloy ellipses, P. Vavassori, N. Zaluzec, V. Metlushko, V. Novosad, B. Ilic, and M. Grimsditch, Physical Review B 69, 214404 (2004)
      • 7. Ferromagnetic resonance study of nanoscale ferromagnetic ring lattices, Wentao Xu, D. B. Watkins, L. E. DeLong, K. Rivkin, J. B. Ketterson, and V. V. Metlushko, Journal of Applied Physics 95, 6645 (2004)
      • 8. Domain-specific magnetization reversals on a Permalloy square ring array, D. R. Lee, J. W. Freeland, G. Srajer, V. Metlushko, and Chun-Yeol You, Journal of Applied Physics 95, 7016 (2004)
      • 9. Magnetic random access memory design using rings with controlled asymmetry, A. S. Mani, D. Geerpuram, A. Domanowski, V. Baskaran and V. Metlushko, Nanotechnology 15 (2004) S645–S648
      • 10. Pinning phenomena in a superconducting film with a square lattice of artificial pinning centers, 1. Z. Jiang, D. A. Dikin, V. Chandrasekhar, V. V. Metlushko, and V. V. Moshchalkov, Applied Physics Letters 84, 5371 (2004)
        
        

        
         

        Courses taught

        • ECE 347 - Integrated Circuit Engineering
        • ECE 342 - Electronics II
        • ECE 449 - Microdevices and Micromachining Technology
        • ECE 540 - Physics of Semiconductor Devices
        • ECE 542 - Semiconductor Device Theory
        E-mail vmetlush@ece.uic.edu