Nitin Samarth

Nitin Samarth is an American physicist, currently the George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Department Head and Professor of Physics in the Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University.[1]

He obtained his undergraduate degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1980 and his Ph.D. in physics from Purdue University in 1986.[2] Samarth's research interests center on spintronic phenomena in thin films and nanostructures derived from semiconductors, magnetic materials and superconductors. He has pioneered the synthesis of a variety of materials in this context, resulting in key advances in semiconductor spintronics[3][4] and, more recently, 'topological spintronics.[5] Samarth's research is published in over 200 articles and has over 13,000 citations (GoogleScholar).[6]

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2003)[7] and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013.[8] He received an Outstanding Physics Alumnus Award from Purdue University (2008).[9] At Penn State, he was awarded the Faculty Scholar Medal in the Physical Sciences (2008) [10] and the George W. Atherton Award for Teaching Excellence (2007).[11]

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  2. "Nitin Samarth — Penn State Department of Physics". www.phys.psu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  3. "Spintronics". Scientific American. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  4. Kikkawa, J. M.; Smorchkova, I. P.; Samarth, N.; Awschalom, D. D. (1997-08-29). "Room-Temperature Spin Memory in Two-Dimensional Electron Gases". Science. 277 (5330): 1284–1287. doi:10.1126/science.277.5330.1284. ISSN 0036-8075.
  5. Mellnik, A. R.; Lee, J. S.; Richardella, A.; Grab, J. L.; Mintun, P. J.; Fischer, M. H.; Vaezi, A.; Manchon, A.; Kim, E.-A. (2014-07-24). "Spin-transfer torque generated by a topological insulator". Nature. 511 (7510): 449–451. arXiv:1402.1124. doi:10.1038/nature13534. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 25056062.
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  7. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  8. "Samarth Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — Eberly College of Science". science.psu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  9. University, Purdue Physics and Astronomy, Purdue. "Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy: Nitin Samarth". www.physics.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  10. "Samarth Earns Faculty Scholar Medal for 2008 — Eberly College of Science". science.psu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
  11. "Samarth Receives 2007 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching — Eberly College of Science". science.psu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
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