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Spintronics and magnetism in thin films

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Stefano Sanvito

Stefano Sanvito is an Italian condensed matter physicist and computational materials scientist who directs the CRANN institute at Trinity College Dublin and develops the Smeagol nanoscale modeling code.

Stephan Roche

Stephan Roche is a French condensed-matter physicist and ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona, known for linear-scaling quantum transport methods and leading European graphene spintronics research.

Stuart Parkin

Stuart Parkin is a British-born physicist who pioneered spintronic materials, winning the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize and directing the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics.

Terunobu Miyazaki

Terunobu Miyazaki (宮崎 照宣), born in 1943, is a Japanese physicist and professor emeritus at Tohoku University who reported the first large room-temperature tunnel magnetoresistance in 1995.

Teruo Ono

Teruo Ono (小野 輝男) is a Japanese physicist and professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Chemical Research, known for the first observation of the superconducting diode effect in 2020.

Ulf Gäfvert

Ulf Gäfvert, credited in publications as Uno Gäfvert, is a physicist who co-authored the 1982 IBM experiment measuring about 2% tunneling magnetoresistance in Ni/NiO junctions.

William H. Rippard

William H. Rippard is an American condensed matter physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who leads the Spin Electronics Group and won a 2007 PECASE award.

Xixiang Zhang

Xixiang Zhang (also published as Xi-Xiang Zhang) is a condensed matter physicist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, known for quantum tunneling of magnetization, magnetocaloric materials, and skyrmions.

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak is a Ukrainian-born theoretical condensed-matter physicist and full professor at UCLA, known for seminal work on spin transport and spintronics in magnetic nanostructures.