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Home » Musfeldt Former Postdoc wins NSF CAREER Award

Musfeldt Former Postdoc wins NSF CAREER Award

Musfeldt Former Postdoc wins NSF CAREER Award

May 24, 2019 by Kayla Benson

Former postdoc, Dipanjan Mazumdar, worked with the Musfeldt group for two years from 2012-2014. He now has a tenure-track job at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is a 2019 NSF CAREER Award recipient for his work with thermal stability and scaling of nanoscale spin-electronic devices based on novel inverse-Heusler alloys.

“When I started my research career, I learned that one can combine ultrathin layers (nanoscale) of magnetic materials to act as a switch utilizing a subtle quantum physics effect called quantum tunneling,” Mazumdar said. “Essentially, in the classical world when we throw a ball onto a wall, it will always bounce back. Always. In the quantum world, however, there is a small chance that throwing quantum objects such as an electron onto a barrier (wall), the electron will end up on the other side of the barrier.”

Maumdar’s goal of this project is to make faster, smaller, energy-efficient magnetic nanoswitches. 

“Surviving in academia is very difficult. Jan Musfeldt helped my career to stay afloat during a very difficult time,” Mazumdar admits. “So this award (and any award/grant I receive in the future) is always going to be directly or indirectly related to the support I received from her at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Chemistry.”

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