Professor
Robert Alan Buhrman
(
–
)
1945
2021
Cornell University
;
Ithaca, NY
Engineer; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Engineering and Technology
Elected
2006
John Edson Sweet Professor of Engineering; Senior Vice Provost for Research, Cornell University. Research is in the area of applied condensed matter physics and nanoscale science and engineering, with a current focus on nanomagnetic materials and spintronics devices. Over the past 15 years Buhrman and his co-authors have published approximately 100 publications in the nanomagnetics and spintronics area that have received more than 14,000 citations in the scientific and engineering literature. Among the contributions of Buhrman and his collaborators are the first definitive demonstration of spin transfer torque switching in magnetic nanostructures, the demonstration of persistent microwave oscillation in dc spin transfer torque excited magnetic nanostructures, a pioneering demonstration of spin transfer torque switching and excitation effects in magnetic tunnel junctions, and the discovery of a giant spin Hall effect in Pt, Ta and W thin films, and the demonstration of its effective application in novel 3-terminal spin torque devices.
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