Seminars
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This Week
Fantastic spin-charge order in spintronic materials
Dr. Shan Wu
Santa Clara University
Tuesday, 10/8/2024, 1:30-2:30pm Pacific
Abstract: Quantum materials hold great promise for applications in future technologies. Particularly,
the frontiers of quantum materials embrace broad research on exotic quantum magnets,
including high-temperature superconductors, topological materials, and layered van
der Waals materials. Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics is among the newest of quantum
technologies, which opens an avenue to manipulate the spin-transport properties in
antiferromagnets for magnetic memory devices. Recently, the intercalated transition
metal dichalcogenide (TMD) antiferromagnet FexNbS2 has shown relevant spintronic features.
Intrigued by this feature, we investigated magnetic and electronic properties, demonstrating
a fantastic phenomenon in this system. In this talk, I will present our recent discovery
which manifests a first example of intertwined spin-charge order in intercalated TMDs.
Bio: Shan Wu is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Santa Clara University. She earned her B.S. in applied physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and her Ph.D. in physics at Johns Hopkins University. As a condensed matter experimentalist, Dr. Wu explores exotic properties in quantum materials with correlated electrons, such as unconventional high-temperature superconductors, magnetic transition metal dichalcogenides, and rare-earth Kondo lattice systems. Her research group at Santa Clara University engages in materials synthesis and characterization, conducting experiments at cutting-edge national facilities, including neutron scattering and synchrotron X-ray scattering laboratories.
