August 2026
Kangjian submitted his PhD thesis "Fabrication and Process Optimization of SiGe HBT on A BiCMOS Platform."
August 2026
Ryan joins our group as PhD student, Welcome aboard !
August 2026
Om Sardar joins our group as PhD student, Welcome aboard !
June 2026
Kangjian's paper, "Mitigating Process-Induced Wafer Distortion for Enhanced Overlay and Thickness Uniformity", is accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Well done !
May 2026
Clifford has passed his PhD qualifying exam, Well done!
May 2026
Miss Swetha joins our group as Project Officer, Welcome aboard !
May 2026
Eng Kang's paper, "Operando Thermal Behavior of 1T-1R Memristors and Its Implications on Online and Offline Learning", is accepted to be published in Nanoscale, Well done!
May 2026
Jun Ken has passed his PhD qualifying exam, Well done!
May 2026
Shu Hui has successfully defended her PhD thesis, Congratulations!
February 2026
Kangjian's paper, "Suppressing hexagonal defects in ex situ SiCoNi processing", is accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Well done !.
January 2026
Eng Kang has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
January 2026
Rovins joins our group as PhD student, Welcome onboard!
January 2026
Dr Sun Jianxun joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome aboard !
January 2026
Wu Shuo has successfully defended her PhD thesis, Congratulations!
December 2025
We are delighted that the NTU–DVL–ITRI collaboration agreement has been endorsed.
November 2025
Dr Zhang Nan joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome aboard !
September 2025
We have signed an RCA with DorsaVi, marking the start of the ARTEMIS project.
September 2025
Yao Yao from Nanjing University of Science and Technology joins us as Visiting PhD Student, Welcome!
September 2025
Chenghua from Chongqing University joins us as Visiting PhD Student, Welcome!
September 2025
Wu Shuo's paper, "Enhancement of Spin-Orbit Torque in Sputtered BiSb-based Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for Neuromorphic Computing Applications", is accepted to be published in Applied Physics Letters.
August 2025
Shu Hui submitted her PhD thesis "Orbital Momentum and Topological Insulator-Based Spin-Orbit Torque Devices".
August 2025
Shan Shyan is registered as FYP student with our group, Welcome onboard !
July 2025
Kah Seng has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
July 2025
Syahril joins our group as EDB-IPP (GF) PhD student, Welcome aboard !
July 2025
Ryan is registered as FYP student with our group, Welcome onboard !
July 2025
Xuan Kai has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
July 2025
Wu Shuo submitted her PhD thesis "Enhancement of Spin-Orbit Torque And Voltage-Controlled Magnetization Switching In Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions".
June 2025
Dr Yang Qu joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome aboard !
June 2025
Wu Shuo's paper, "Voltage-Modulated Magnetic Properties and Enhanced Thermal Endurance in Ta/Mo-based Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions", is accepted to be published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
May 2025
Dr Andhita is promoted to Senior Research Fellow, Congratulations !
May 2025
Xiao Xiao from Nanjing University joins us as Visiting PhD Student, Welcome!
May 2025
Lingli's paper, "CMOS-Compatible Protonic Three-Terminal Memristor for Analog Synapse in Neuromorphic Computing", is accepted to be published in Small Methods.
May 2025
Eng Kang submitted his PhD thesis "Resistive Switching Dynamics In Bimodal Memristors: Enabling Hybrid Digital-Analog Computation For AI Applications".
May 2025
Yun Ming has successfully defended her PhD thesis, Congratulations!
May 2025
Shu Hui's paper, "Complementary interactions of orbital momentum and topological spin states in ferromagnet/Cu/Bi0.85Sb0.15 structures", is published in Physical Review Applied.
May 2025
Qingguo has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
April 2025
Sunzhong joins our group as Project Officer, Welcome aboard !
March 2025
Chen Ze's paper, "Voltage-Controlled Half Adder via Magnonic Inverse Design", is accepted to be published in Applied Physics Letters.
March 2025
Tianli's paper, "Generation of High and Bidirectional Out-of-Plane Spin-Orbit Torque through Vertical Magnetization Gradient", is accepted to be published in Applied Physics Letters.
February 2025
Lingli successfully defended her PhD thesis, Congratulations !
February 2025
Calvin Lee's paper, "Enhanced Threshold Switching and Oscillatory Behaviour in Ag-based Diffusive Memristors via Nanoporous Cations Limiter", has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.
January 2025
Kangjian's paper, "Enhanced Silicon Crystallization on Dielectric Materials at Reduced Temperature", has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing.
January 2025
Yun Ming submitted her PhD thesis "Evaluation of Deformable Image Registration for Contour Propagation and Dose Accumulation in Adaptive Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer".
January 2025
Calvin Lee successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations !
January 2025
Jun Ken joins our group as PhD student, working closely with NCCS!
January 2025
Hoang Thien joins our group as PhD student!
January 2025
We have signed an RCA with Hoya Electronics, marking the start of the EUV Bragg reflector project.
November 2024
Chen Ze has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
October 2024
Eng Kang's paper, "Leveraging Tunability of Localized-Interfacial Memristors for Efficient Handling of Complex Neural Networks" is published in ACS Nano.
September 2024
Gerard's comment paper, "Bridging academia and industry for the future of spintronics" is published in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering.
September 2024
Jia Rui submitted his PhD thesis "Doping and Performance Enhancement Techniques for Highly Reliable Resistive Switching Memories".
August 2024
Clifford joins our group as PhD student, working closely with NCCS!
August 2024
Calvin Lee submitted his PhD thesis "Cation-based Memristors for Memory and Non-Conventional Computing Applications".
August 2024
Lingli submitted her PhD thesis "Ionic-based Three-Terminal Memristors for Synaptic and Neuronal Device Applications".
August 2024
Yun Ming's paper "Machine Learning Prediction of Dice Similarity Coefficient for Validation of Deformable Image Registration" is published in Intelligence-Based Medicine.
June 2024
Bryan has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
June 2024
Yun Ming's paper "Deformable Anthropomorphic Pelvis Phantom for Dose Accumulation Verification" is accepted to be published in Physics in Medicine and Biology.
June 2024
Wu Shuo's paper "Electric field control of spin-orbit torque in annealed Ta/CoFeB/HfOx heterostructures via interfacial oxidation modulation" is accepted to be published in Nanotechnology.
May 2024
Han Yin successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
April 2024
Tianli's paper "Granular Magnetization Switching in Pt/Co/Ti Structure with HfOx Insertion for in-Memory Computing Applications" is accepted to be published in Nano Letters.
April 2024
Gerard has taken up a Lecturer position in SPMS, he is now a Principal Investigator in research group, Congratulations!
April 2024
Commissioning of a new Picosun 200 mm ALD system.
April 2024
Eng Kang's paper "Abrupt and gradual switching response in a single 1T-1R Ta2O5-based resistive memory device for storage-class memory and synaptic tuning applications" is published in Nanoscale Horizons.
March 2024
Lingli won the Women in Technology (Micron) award, Congratulations!
February 2024
Yun Ming's paper "Effects of modern aesthetic dental fillings on proton therapy" is published in Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology.
February 2024
Mun Yun successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
February 2024
Kangjian has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
February 2024
Kunqi successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
January 2024
Jia Min successfully defended her PhD thesis, Congratulations!
January 2024
Xuan Kai joins our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome onboard!
November 2023
Samuel successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
October 2023
Zhang Bo joins our group as Visiting PhD Student, Welcome!
October 2023
Lingli's paper "A Bi-functional Three-Terminal Memristor Applicable as Artificial Synapse and Neurons" is published in Nanoscale.
September 2023
Jia Min's paper "Strain-induced Degradation and Recovery of Flexible NbOx-based Threshold Switching Device" is published in Scientific Reports.
September 2023
Panke's collaborative paper "Photo-Electric Multilevel Memory Device Based on Covalent Organic Polymer Film with Keto-Enol Tautomerism for Harsh Environments Applications" is published in Advanced Functional Materials.
August 2023
Chen Ze and Kah Seng join our group as PhD students, Welcome onboard!
August 2023
Qingguo joins our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome onboard!
August 2023
Mun Yin submitted his PhD thesis "Frequency-Dependent Redox-Based 1S1R Synapse With A Short-Term Plasticity TiO2-Based Exponential Selector".
August 2023
Kunqi submitted his PhD thesis "Investigation of Ionic Doping In All-Solid-State Organic Electrochemical Transistors".
August 2023
Jia Min submitted her PhD thesis "Investigation of the Dynamics of NbOx-Based Threshold Switching Devices for Next-Generation Computing and Wearable Electronics".
August 2023
Han Yin submitted his PhD thesis "Spin Orbit Torque: Spin Accumulation Techniques And Interfacial Investigation Of Topological Insulator".
June 2023
Birte successfully defended her PhD thesis, Congratulations!
May 2023
Mun Yin's paper "The impact of oxygen vacancy defect density on the nonlinearity and short-term plasticity of TiO2-based exponential selector" is accepted to be published in Nanotechnology.
May 2023
Dr Vasanthan joins our group as Senior Research Fellow, Welcome aboard!
May 2023
Birte's paper "Investigation of spin-orbit torque performance with W/Cu-multilayers as spin current source" is accepted to be published in Journal of Applied Physics.
May 2023
Lingli's paper "Protons-assisted Redox-based Three-terminal Memristor for Synaptic Device Applications" is accepted to be published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
March 2023
Kunqi's paper "High performance, flexible and thermally stable all-solid-state organic electrochemical transistor based on thermoplastic polyurethane ion-gel" is accepted to be published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.
March 2023
Wu Shuo's paper "Enhancement of spin-orbit torque in Pt/Co/HfOx heterostructures with voltage-controlled oxygen ion migration" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
February 2023
Han Yin's paper "Crystallinity control of topological insulator BiSb(012) via interfacial engineering for spin orbit torque enhancement" is published in Physical Review Applied.
February 2023
Jia Min's paper "Enhancement of Temperature-Modulated NbO2-Based Relaxation Oscillator via Interfacial and Bulk Treatment" is accepted to be published in Nanotechnology.
January 2023
Samuel submitted his PhD thesis "Investigations of Interfacial Engineering on MgO-based Resistive Switching Memory Devices".
January 2023
Birte submitted her PhD thesis "Investigations Of Spin Currents In Elemental, Alloyed And Multilayer Systems Using Spin-Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance Technique".
January 2023
Shu Hui passed her PhD qualifying exam, well done!
January 2023
Bryan joins our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome onboard!
December 2022
Eng Kang passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
November 2022
Yun Ming passed her PhD qualifying exam, well done!
October 2022
Samuel's paper "Impact of interfacial engineering on MgO-based resistive switching devices for low-power applications" is published in Applied Surface Science.
October 2022
Panke, Kaimin and Shaomin join our group as Visiting PhD Student, Welcome!
July 2022
Yvan and Kangjian join our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD students, Welcome onboard!
July 2022
Mun Yin's paper "Frequency-dependent synapse weight tuning in 1S1R with short-term plasticity TiOx-based exponential selector" is accepted to be published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
July 2022
Han Yin's paper "Continuous film characterisation of Spin Orbit Torque using Four Probe Measurement" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
July 2022
Yuanmin is promoted to Senior Research Fellow, Congratulations!
May 2022
Wu Shuo passed her PhD qualifying exam, well done!
May 2022
Calvin Ang successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
February 2022
Tianli's paper "Spin Reflection Induced Field-free Magnetization Switching in Perpendicularly Magnetized MgO/Pt/Co Heterostructures" is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
February 2022
Calvin Koh successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
January 2022
Grayson successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
December 2021
Calvin Ang becomes a group staff as Project Officer.
December 2021
Han Yin's paper "Quantification of spin accumulation magnetoresistance using DC bias harmonic Hall measurement" is published in Physical Review B.
November 2021
Lingli and Calvin passed their PhD qualifying exams, well done!
November 2021
Kunqi's paper "Operando direct observation of filament formation in resistive switching devices enabled by a topological transformation molecule", in collaboration with Prof Leong Wei Ling, is published in Nano Letters.
October 2021
Eugene joins our group as Project Officer (SGUnited), Welcome aboard!
August 2021
Calvin Ang submitted his PhD thesis "Magnetic Skyrmion Stabilization, Nucleation, and Dynamics on Magnetic Multilayer Thin Films".
August 2021
Calvin Koh submitted his PhD thesis "Radiobiological Studies For A Proton Beam Therapy Monte Carlo Simulation Treatment Planning System".
August 2021
Grayson submitted his PhD thesis "Spin-Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance Investigation for Enhancement of Spin-Orbit Torque Efficiency".
July 2021
Grayson's paper "Reversible strain-induced spin-orbit torque on flexible substrate by mild annealing" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
July 2021
Yun Ming joins our group as PhD student, Welcome onboard!
July 2021
Shu Hui and Eng Kang join our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome onboard!
June 2021
Grayson's paper "Strain-mediated spin-orbit torque enhancement in Pt/Co on flexible substrate" is published in ACS Nano.
May 2021
Chuen Hang joins our group as Principal Research Fellow, Welcome onboard!
May 2021
Arrival of our new 200 mm CMP system.
April 2021
Funan joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome onboard!
April 2021
Calvin's paper "Temperature-modulated magnetic Skyrmion phases and transformations by first-order reversal curve analysis" is published in Physical Review B.
March 2021
Tianli joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome onboard!
March 2021
Gerard and Andhita are promoted to Research Fellow, Congratulations!
February 2021
Construction of our gas bunker is complete and we received NEA and SCDF approval for storage of cylinder flammable gas.
February 2021
Xu Zhan's paper "Large spin-orbit torque efficiency enhanced by nitrogen incorporation in Pt films" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
January 2021
Desmond has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
January 2021
Our new book "Emerging Non-volatile Memory Technologies: Physics, Engineering and Applications", is published by Springer.
January 2021
Andhita has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
January 2021
Wu Shuo joins our group as PhD student, Welcome onboard!
December 2020
Gerard has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
December 2020
Calvin and Birte won silver and bronze prize, respectively, in their presentation in the 10th annual symposium on magnetism (Singapore IEEE Magnetics Society Chapter), well done!
December 2020
Birte's paper "Enhanced spin Hall conductivity in tungsten-copper alloys" is published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
December 2020
Arrival of our new ICP-RIE system.
December 2020
Yuanmin joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome aboard!
December 2020
Arrival of our new PECVD system.
November 2020
Arrival of our new spin-coating system.
November 2020
Calvin's paper "Electrical control of skyrmion density via skyrmion-stripe transformation" is published in Physical Review Applied.
November 2020
Jia Min, Kunqi, Jia Rui, Han Yin and Mun Yin passed their PhD qualifying exams, well done!
October 2020
Desmond's paper "Oxygen Vacancy Density Dependence with Hopping Conduction Mechanism in Multi-Level Switching Behavior of HfO2-Based RRAM Devices" is published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.
September 2020
Gerard's paper "Effect of Seed and Interlayer Pt on SOT in Co/Pt Multilayers" is published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
September 2020
Arrival of our new Raith VOYAGER electron beam lithography system.
September 2020
Arrival of our new semi-auto probe station.
September 2020
Xiaoyang joins our group as Project Officer, Welcome onboard!
August 2020
Shane has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
August 2020
Gerard submitted his PhD thesis "Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetization Switching in Co/Pt Multilayers for Multistate Memory and Logic Devices".
August 2020
Desmond submitted his PhD thesis "Filamentary Physics and Modelling in Redox-Based Resistive Devices".
August 2020
SunZhong and Eugene join our group as RIE Trainee, Welcome onboard!
August 2020
Lingli joins our group as PhD student, Welcome onboard!
August 2020
Calvin joins our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome onboard!
August 2020
Gerard's paper "Effect of Seed and Interlayer Pt on SOT in Co/Pt Multilayers" is accepted to be published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
July 2020
Weiliang won the inaugural Graduate College Innovation and Entrepreneurship award, Congratulations!
July 2020
Completion of renovation of our PAP-01-01 Class 1000 cleanroom.
July 2020
Calvin's paper "Standardizing Monte Carlo Simulation parameters for a reproducible linear energy transfer" is published in British Journal of Radiology.
July 2020
Xu Zhan's paper "Giant Spin Hall Effect in Tb Doped Cu Thin Films" is published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
July 2020
Gerard's paper "Spin-Orbit Torque Driven Analog-Like Behaviour in Co/Pt Hall Cross Structures at Elevated Temperatures" is published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
July 2020
Laboratory operation is in Phase 2 post-CB period.
June 2020
Grayson's paper "Thermal behavior of spin-current generation in PtxCu1-x devices characterized through spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance" is published in Scientific Reports.
June 2020
Weng Hong joins our group as Senior Research Fellow, Welcome aboard!
June 2020
Laboratory is partially open in Phase 1 post-CB period.
April-May 2020
Laboratory is closed during the COVID-19 "Circuit Breaker" period.
March 2020
Gerard's paper "Programmable Spin-Orbit Torque Logic Device with Integrated Bipolar Bias Field for Chirality Control" is published in Advanced Electronics Materials.
February 2020
Completion of renovation of our PAP-01-06 Class 100/1000 cleanroom.
February 2020
Arrival of our 300mm ULVAC PVD system.
February 2020
Completion of renovation of our CBC-02-03 cleanroom.
January 2020
Andhita submitted his PhD thesis "Redox-Based Memristive Devices: Towards Highly Scalable Synaptic Electronics".
January 2020
Shane submitted his PhD thesis "Enhanced Spin Orbit Torque (SOT) and Spin accumulation quantification in perpendicularly magnetised structures".
December 2019
Shawn's paper "Heating Efficiency of Triple Vortex State Cylindrical Magnetic Nanoparticles" is published in Nanoscale Research Letters.
December 2019
Henry joins our group as Project Officer, Welcome aboard!
December 2019
Weiliang has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
November 2019
Birte and Samuel have passed their PhD qualifying exams, well done!
November 2019
We presented four talks at Las Vegas MMM 2019 conference.
November 2019
Shawn has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
October 2019
Gerard has been awarded a conference travel grant to attend the 2019 MMM conference in Las Vegas.
October 2019
A joint research paper with Prof Ma, Nanjing Normal University, "An artificial skyrmion platform with robust tunability in synthetic antiferromagnetic multilayers", is published in Advanced Functional Materials.
October 2019
Launch of NTU-GFS Research Partnership.
October 2019
Tianli has successfully defended her PhD thesis, Congratulations!
October 2019
Funan has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
October 2019
Wai Cheung has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
October 2019
Sihua has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Congratulations!
September 2019
Andhita's paper "Unidirectional Threshold Switching Induced by Cu Migration with High Selectivity and Ultralow OFF Current Under Gradual Electroforming Treatment" is accepted to be published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.
September 2019
We received Nanyang Award on Innovations and Entrepreneurship.
September 2019
Shawn's paper "Heating Efficiency of Triple Vortex State Cylindrical Magnetic Nanoparticles" is accepted to be published in Nanoscale Research Letters.
August 2019
Weiliang submitted his PhD thesis "Skyrmion dynamics in magnetic thin films".
August 2019
Kuan Hong and Yi Ling are registered as FYP students with our group, Welcome onboard!
July 2019
Our group's paper "Dependence of spin-orbit torque effective fields on magnetization uniformity in Ta/Co/Pt structure" is published in Scientific Reports.
July 2019
Mun Yin and Kunqi join our group as PhD students, Welcome onboard!
June 2019
Funan's paper "Electric field control on single and double Pt/Co heterostructure for enhanced thermal stability" is published in JMMM.
June 2019
Elden joins our group as Senior Research Fellow, Welcome aboard!
June 2019
Louis joins our group as Project Officer, Welcome aboard!
May 2019
Funan's paper "High velocity domain wall propagation using voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy" is published in Scientific Reports.
May 2019
Calvin Koh has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
May 2019
Dr Chakrabakti joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome aboard!
May 2019
Dr Dayanand joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome aboard!
May 2019
Grayson and Calvin Ang have passed their PhD qualifying exams, well done!
April 2019
Lyu Lanqing is registered as 2019 NRP enrichment project student.
April 2019
Funan's paper "Electric field control for energy efficient domain wall injection" is accepted to be published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
April 2019
Calvin's paper "Bilayer skyrmion dynamics on a magnetic anisotropy gradient" is published in New Journal of Physics.
February 2019
Shane's paper "Enhanced Spin-orbit Torques in Rare Earth Pt/[CoNi]2/Co/Tb systems" is published in Physical Review Applied.
January 2019
Our invention, "Magnetic Random Number Generator" filing for a US Patent (Application No: 15/411,811) is granted (US Patent No. 10,127,016).
January 2019
A new spin-off company, "Advanced Magnetics Devices Pte Ltd" is formed to commercialise some of our inventions with license from NTUitive.
January 2019
Shawn submitted his PhD thesis "Engineered cylindrical NiFe magnetic nanoparticles for cancer cell death".
January 2019
Sihua submitted his PhD thesis "Spin-orbit torque (SOT) effective fields and SOT-induced switching in perpendicularly magnetized multilayers".
January 2019
Wai Cheung submitted his PhD thesis "Enhancement of Thermal Robustness in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions With Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy".
January 2019
Funan submitted his PhD thesis "Gated Electric Field Control On Multilayered Structures With Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy".
January 2019
Wai Cheung's paper "Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Co/Pt multilayers induced by hcp-Ho at 400 °C" is published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
January 2019
Namita joins our group as NTU-India Connect research intern, Welcome aboard!
November 2018
We received Letter of Award from IAF for our ICP program "Advanced ReRAM Technology for Embedded Systems".
November 2018
CSS visiting scholar Xu Zhan joins our group, Welcome aboard!
November 2018
Our group's research paper "Spin orbit torque induced effective field modulation in synthetic antiferromagnetic structure" is published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
November 2018
Sihua's paper "Tuning the spin-orbit torque effective fields by varying Pt insertion layer thickness in perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/Pt(t)/Ta structures" is published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
October 2018
RCA signed with industry partner on IAF-ICP program, "Advanced ReRAM Technology for Embedded Systems".
October 2018
Desmond's paper "Conduction Mechanisms on High Retention Annealed MgO-based Resistive Switching Memory Devices" is published in Scientific Reports.
August 2018
Funan's paper "Electric Field control on Gated Pt/Co/SiO2 Heterostructure with Insulating Polymer" is published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
August 2018
Wai Cheung's paper "High temperature Ferromagnetic Resonance study on pMTJ stacks with diffusion barrier layers" is published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
August 2018
Han Yin and Daniel are registered as FYP students with our group, Welcome onboard!
August 2018
Birte joins our group as PhD student (SINGA scholar), Welcome onboard!
July 2018
Jia Min, Han Yin and Jia Rui join our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD students, Welcome onboard!
July 2018
Samuel joins our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome onboard!
June 2018
Christian has passed his PhD oral defence, Congratulations!
May 2018
Our second unit of AJA eight-target magnetron sputtering system is delivered.
April 2018
Li Jiang Rong is registered as 2018 NRP enrichment project student, Welcome aboard!
April 2018
Siew Wei joins our group as Project Officer, Welcome aboard!
April 2018
Shawn's paper "Interplay of cell death signalling pathways mediated by alternating magnetic field gradient" is published in Cell Death Discovery.
March 2018
We are delighted to have Chandra back in our group!
March 2018
Feilong has passed his PhD oral defence, Congratulations!
March 2018
Alan joins our group as Project Officer, Welcome aboard!
February 2018
Roger has passed his PhD oral defence, Congratulations!
February 2018
Shane's paper "In-Situ Kerr harmonic measurement in determining current-induced effective fields in MgO/CoFeB/Ta" is published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
February 2018
Liu Ning has passed his PhD, Congratulations!
February 2018
Xiaoliang's paper "Oxide-based RRAM materials for neuromorphic computing" is published in Journal of Materials Science.
January 2018
Malvin is registered as FYP student with our group, Welcome onboard!
January 2018
A paper under collaboration with Prof Jiangwei Cao titled "Spin orbit torques induced magnetization reversal through asymmetric domain wall propagation in Ta/CoFeB/MgO structures" is published in Scientific Reports.
January 2018
Weiliang's paper "Efficient in-line skyrmion injection method for synthetic antiferromagnetic systems" is published in New Journal of Physics.
January 2018
Sachin has passed his PhD oral defence, Congratulations!
January 2018
Feilong submitted his PhD thesis "Spin-orbit torque effective fields and spin accumulation in Ta/Co/Pt structure with in-plane magnetic anisotropy".
January 2018
Wang Xuan's paper "Efficient skyrmion transport mediated by voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy gradient" is published in Nanoscale.
December 2017
Calvin Koh has been awarded a University Research Scholarship for PhD study with our group. He will be working closely with Prof James Lee at NCCS, Welcome aboard!
November 2017
Desmond passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
November 2017
Christian submitted his PhD thesis "Current-induced spin-orbit torque effective fields in multilayer structures with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy".
November 2017
Our new Lakeshore 8600 series VSM system is delivered.
November 2017
Our proposal for an AME IAF-ICP fund is granted.
November 2017
We are awarded a GAP commercialisation fund.
November 2017
We gave 4 presentations at Pittsburgh MMM 2017 conference.
October 2017
Shane and Funan were awarded overseas conference travel grants by Lee Foundation.
September 2017
Pankaj has passed his PhD oral defence, Congratulations!
September 2017
Sachin's paper "Role of RKKY torque on domain wall motion in synthetic antiferromagnetic nanowires with opposite spin Hall angles" is published in Scientific Reports.
September 2017
Kevin is registered as 2nd year URECA project student and Angus is registered as PH2999 project student.
September 2017
Shawn's paper "Magneto-actuated cell apoptosis by biaxial pulsed magnetic field" is published in Scientific Reports.
August 2017
Sherilyn, Wei Kiat and Joycelyn are registered as FYP students with our group, Welcome onboard!
August 2017
We receive the delivery of our new GMW rotational electromagnet.
August 2017
We receive the delivery of our new Keithley 4200A-SCS Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer Characterization System.
August 2017
Liu Ning submitted his PhD thesis "Microfluidic Devices For Cell Separation And Sample Concentration".
August 2017
Christian's paper "Quantitative characterization of spin-orbit torques in Pt/Co/Pt/Co/Ta/BTO heterostructure on the magnetization azimuthal angle dependence" is published in Physical Review B.
August 2017
Christian's paper "Effect of geometrical modulation on pMTJ magnetization reversal" is accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.
July 2017
Liu Ning's paper "Direct Spraying Method for Fabrication of Paper-based Microfluidic Sensors" is accepted to be published in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.
July 2017
Calvin has been awarded a University Research Scholarship for PhD study with our group, Welcome back!
July 2017
Grayson joins our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome onboard!
July 2017
Liu Ning's paper "An enclosed paper microfluidic chip as a sample pre-concentrator based on ion concentration polarization" is accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
July 2017
Pankaj's paper "Bi-directional high speed domain wall motion in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Co/Pt double stack nanowires" is published in Scientific Reports.
July 2017
Roger submitted his PhD thesis "Monte Carlo simulation and dosimetric studies for small fields in lung stereotactic body radiation therapy".
June 2017
We hosted the visit of Prof Mathias Kläui from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Prof Kläui gave a talk on "Topological Spin Dynamics".
June 2017
Sachin submitted his PhD thesis "Current Induced Domain Wall Dynamics in Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Based Nanostructured Materials".
June 2017
Jaesuk's paper "Asymmetrical domain wall propagation in bifurcated PMA wire structure due to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
May 2017
Our NRP students Melissa, Yi Yang and Justin received gold award for their projects in Nanyang Research Programme 2016, well done!
May 2017
Pankaj submitted his PhD thesis "Magnetization Dynamics Of Domain Wall Based Devices For Logic And Memory Applications".
May 2017
We hosted the visit of Prof Cherif Mourad from Université Paris-Sud, ORSAY Cedex, France.
May 2017
Christian's paper "Characterizing angular dependence of spin-orbit torque effective fields in Pt/(Co/Ni)2/IrMn structure" is published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.
April 2017
Sihua's paper "Deterministic Spin Orbit Torque Induced Magnetization Reversal In Pt/[Co/Ni]n/Co/Ta Multilayer Hall Bars" is published in Scientific Reports.
April 2017
Shane has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
April 2017
We have given 10 presentations at Dublin INTERMAG 2017 conference.
April 2017
Ramu passed his PhD oral defense, Congratulations!
April 2017
Feilong's paper "Simultaneous determination of effective spin-orbit torque fields in magnetic structures with in-plane anisotropy" is accepted to be published in Physical Review B.
April 2017
Jiao Yuyang is registered as 2017 NRP enrichment project student, Welcome aboard!
April 2017
Ramu's paper "Spin orbit torque induced asymmetric depinning of chiral Néel domain wall in Co/Ni heterostructures" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
April 2017
Christian's paper "Spin-orbit torque induced magnetization anisotropy modulation in Pt/(Co/Ni)4/Co/IrMn heterostructure" is published in Journal of Applied Physics.
March 2017
A joint venture, Vertisis Technology Pte Ltd is formed to commercialise our imaging technology.
March 2017
Our NRP students, Melissa and Yi Yang have won a Gold Award in the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair 2017, well done!
March 2017
Sachin and Sihua have been awarded IEEE Travel grants to attend the 2017 INTERMAG conference in Dublin.
February 2017
Shawn has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
February 2017
Our invention “Magnetic random number generator” is submitted for PCT patent application.
February 2017
Our invention “An apparatus and method for Kerr imaging” is submitted for PCT patent application.
February 2017
Our US patent 9,502,090 is granted.
January 2017
Ramu submitted his PhD thesis "Domain wall dynamics in ferromagnetic nanostructures" for examination.
January 2017
Hayden joins our group as Research Fellow, Welcome aboard!
December 2016
Andhita has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
December 2016
Han Kheng won a URECA publication award, well done!
November 2016
We have filed a know-how "A Ferromagnetic Resonance Spectrometer".
November 2016
Pankaj's paper "Modulation of spin-orbit torque efficiency by thickness control of heavy metal layers in Co/Pt multilayers" is published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
November 2016
Weiliang has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
November 2016
The construction of our new class 1000 cleanroom (SPMS-CBC-02-03) is now complete.
November 2016
Han Kheng's paper "Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction induced domain wall de-pinning anomaly in notched nanowire with perpendicular anisotropy" is published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
November 2016
Jae Suk's paper "Cyclic resistance change in perpendicularly magnetized Co/Ni nanowire induced by alternating current pulse injection" is published in Current Applied Physics.
November 2016
We gave four presentations in the 61st MMM 2016 conference.
November 2016
Our IP "Magnetic Memory Devices And Methods Of Operating The Same" is filed for a PCT patent application.
October 2016
Fusheng's paper "Emergent geometric frustration of artificial magnetic skyrmion crystals" is published in Physical Review B.
October 2016
Andhita's TD "Anti-Serially Connected Resistive Random Access Memory Cell" is now converted to Singapore Provisional Patent.
October 2016
Shane's paper "Isolation of magnetically tagged cancer cell through an integrated magnetofluidic device" is published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.
September 2016
Shawn won the best student presentation award in the Singapore Magnetics Symposium, well done!
September 2016
Our US patent "Non-Volatile Logic Device" (Patent No. 9,431,599) is granted.
September 2016
Dr Wang Xuan joins our group as CSC Visiting Scholar, Welcome onboard!
August 2016
Arifa is registered as URECA student with our group, Welcome onboard!
August 2016
Calvin is registered as URECA-FYP student with our group, Welcome onboard!
August 2016
Feilong's paper "Measuring the field-like term of spin-orbit torque in Ta/Co/Pt in-plane magnetization structure by planar Hall effect" is published in Journal of Applied Physics.
August 2016
Pankaj is shortlisted as a finalist for the APS GMAG-sponsored Best Student Presentation Award in 2016 MMM Conference, well done!
August 2016
We gave six presentations in the IcAUMS 2016 conference.
July 2016
An industry networking seminar on "Advanced Memory and Sensor for Embedded Systems" and a SG-SPIN quarterly seminar was successfully held at Nanyang Executive Centre.
July 2016
Sachin's paper "Observation of ice-rule violation and monopole dynamics via edge nucleation of domain walls in artificial spin ice lattice" is published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
July 2016
Wai Cheung has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
July 2016
Our FYP student, Tony, has won a URECA publication award, well done!
July 2016
Industry networking seminar on "Advanced Memory and Sensor for Embedded Systems" and SG-SPIN seminar to be held on 15 July 2016 at Nanyang Executive Centre.
May 2016
Shawn won a URECA publication award, well done!
May 2016
Our NRP students Dinh and Rayhan received gold award for their projects in Nanyang Research Programme 2015, well done!
April 2016
Funan has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
April 2016
ITQ of our new cleanroom at CBC-02-03 has been awarded. Construction work will be carried out soon.
April 2016
Weiliang's TD "Dichromatic Differential Imaging Technique for Kerr Imaging" is filed for Singapore Provisional Patent.
April 2016
Melissa, Yi Yang, and Justin are registered as 2016 NRP enrichment project students while Xinyi is registered as H3 project student, Welcome onboard!
April 2016
Desmond won a second prize in 2016 DISCOVER URECA @ NTU poster competition, well done!
April 2016
Senfu and Weiliang's paper "Highly efficient domain walls injection in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy memory devices" is published in Scientific Reports.
April 2016
Shawn's paper "Current-induced three-dimensional domain wall propagation in cylindrical NiFe nanowires" is published in Journal of Applied Physics.
March 2016
Desmond receives job offer from GLOBALFOUNDRIES and stays on as IPP PhD student, Congratulations!
February 2016
Tony's paper "Gated skyrmion transport via field-induced potential barrier modulation" is published in Scientific Reports.
February 2016
Chandra's paper "Reconfigurable logic via gate controlled domain wall trajectory in magnetic network structure" is published in Scientific Reports.
February 2016
Tianli joins our group as co-supervised PhD student, Welcome aboard!
January 2016
Weiliang has successfully developed a Kerr imaging system, well done!
January 2016
We have given nine presentations in the 2016 MMM-Intermag conference.
January 2016
We hosted the visit of Prof Cao Jiangwei from Lanzhou University. Prof Cao delivered a talk on "Spin Orbit Torque Induced Magnetization Switching and Spin Hall Resistance in Ta/CoFeB/MgO structures".
January 2016
Pankaj's TD "Magnetic random number generator" is filed for Singapore provisional patent.
January 2016
Pankaj's paper "Direct observation of deterministic domain wall trajectory in magnetic network structures" is published in Scientific Reports.
December 2015
We hosted the visit of Prof Hywel Morgan from the University of Southampton. Prof Morgan gave a seminar on "From Smartphones to Diagnostics: programmable droplet microfluidics".
December 2015
Shane stays on as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student.
November 2015
Sihua passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
November 2015
Pankaj's paper "In-plane current induced domain wall nucleation and oscillations in perpendicular anisotropy Hall cross structures" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
October 2015
Jae Suk's paper "Low field domain wall dynamics in artificial spin-ice basis structure" is published in Journal of Applied Physics.
October 2015
Our TD "Low-Power Bit Writing In Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Memory Devices" has been converted to Singapore Provisional Patent.
October 2015
Pankaj won a prize in the 6th Annual Symposium for Magnetics 2015, well done!
September 2015
Senfu has completed his one year visiting PhD program at our group.
September 2015
Wai Cheung has completed the setup of a home-built VNA FMR system, well done!
August 2015
Indra passed his PhD oral defense, Congratulations!
August 2015
Han Kheng won a URECA publication award, well done!
August 2015
Li Zhen, Hamzah, Yee Yen, Alina and Glenn are registered as 2015/2016 FYP students with our group, Welcome onboard!
August 2015
Tony, Han Kheng and Desmond are registered as 2015/2016 URECA-FYP students with our group, Welcome onboard!
July 2015
Gerard and Funan have completed the setup of a home-built perpendicular magnetic field probe station, well done!
July 2015
Chandra won the "2015 MRSS Gold Medal for Best PhD Thesis in Physics" award sponsored by Materials Research Society Singapore (MRSS), Congratulations!
July 2015
We have given 12 presentations at the 20th International Conference of Magnetism, Barcelona.
July 2015
We hosted the visit of Prof Bethanie Stadler from University of Minnesota. Prof Stadler delivered a 2015 IEEE Distinguished Lecture on "Magnetic Nanowires: Revolutionizing Hard Drives, RAM and Cancer Treatment".
June 2015
We hosted the visit of Dr Chang Cu-Zu from MIT. Dr Chang gave a talk on "Quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetically doped topological insulators".
June 2015
Shane joins our group as project officer, Welcome aboard!
June 2015
We hosted the visit of Prof Sara Majetich from Carnegie Mellon University. Prof Majetich gave a talk on "Magnetic Tunnel Junction and Interface Anisotropy".
June 2015
Pankaj won a Silver prize in poster competition at the IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School 2015 (Minneapolis, USA), well done!
June 2015
Tony won a prize in the 2015 DISCOVER URECA@NTU Poster Competition, well done!
June 2015
Farhan joins our group as project officer, Welcome aboard!
June 2015
Fusheng joins our group as senior research fellow, Welcome aboard!
May 2015
We have given 16 presentations at Beijing INTERMAG 2015 conference, including two from our collaborators.
May 2015
Indra submitted his PhD thesis "Dynamics of Current-Driven Magnetic Domain Walls and Skyrmions" for examination, and he stays on as Project Officer.
May 2015
Han Kheng's paper "Programmable logic operation via domain wall profile manipulation" is accepted to be published in IEEE Magnetics Letters.
May 2015
Tony's paper "Mitigation of Magnus force in current-induced skyrmion dynamics" is accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.
May 2015
Andhita has been awarded a University Research Scholarship for PhD study, Congratulations!
May 2015
Christian has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
April 2015
Feilong has passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
April 2015
Weiliang has been awarded a Nanyang President Graduate Scholarship for PhD study, Congratulations!
April 2015
Indra's paper "Guided current-induced skyrmion motion in 1D potential well" is published in Scientific Reports.
April 2015
Shawn stays on as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student.
April 2015
Shawn's paper "Dynamics of three-dimensional helical domain wall in cylindrical NiFe nanowires" is published in Journal of Applied Physics.
April 2015
We hosted the visit of Prof Jian-Ping Wang from University of Minnesota, who is also the Director of the C-SPIN center. Prof Wang gave a seminar on "Opportunities and Challenges of Magnetoresistive Based Logic and Memory and their Integration".
April 2015
Our TD "Non-uniform spatial current distribution for logic operations in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction" has been converted to Singapore provisional patent.
March 2015
We hosted the visit of Prof Charles Smith from Cambridge University. Prof Smith gave a seminar on "Investigating Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes For Metrology and Quantum Technology Applications".
March 2015
Goolaup's paper "Transverse domain wall profile for logic applications" is published in Scientific Reports.
March 2015
Liu Ning passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
March 2015
Dr Xuanyao Fong from Purdue University will give a talk on "Towards Beyond-CMOS with Spintronics".
February 2015
We hosted the first SG-SPIN seminar series. Talks were given by speakers from core members' groups. Representatives from NRF and Delta Electronics were present.
February 2015
Roger passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
February 2015
Indra's paper "Coupled Néel domain wall motion in sandwiched perpendicular magnetic anisotropy nanowires" is published in Scientific Reports.
February 2015
Our TD "Logic Operation Based On Magnetic Domain Wall Profile" has been converted to US provisional patent.
February 2015
Chandra's paper "Coupled domain wall oscillations in magnetic cylindrical nanowires" is published in Journal of Applied Physics.
January 2015
Wen Siang received 2013/14 SPMS Excellence Teaching Award!
January 2015
Chor Boon is registered as 2014/2015 FYP student with our group, Welcome onboard!
January 2015
Wai Cheung stays on as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome back!
January 2015
Weinan passed his PhD oral defense, Congratulations!
January 2015
Sachin, Pankaj and Gerard passed their PhD qualifying exams, well done!
January 2015
Weiliang has completed his B.Sc study and stays on in the group as Project Officer, Welcome back!
January 2015
Funan joins our group as IPP (GLOBALFOUNDRIES) PhD student, Welcome onboard!
December 2014
We hosted the visit of Prof Hideo Ohno from Tohoku University. Prof Ohno gave a seminar on "Nanoscale Magnetic Tunnel Junctions".
December 2014
We hosted the visit of Prof Geoffrey Beach from MIT. Prof Beach gave a seminar on "Spin-Orbitronics: Interfacial Design of Spintronic Materials and Devices".
December 2014
We hosted the visit of Prof Teruo Ono from Kyoto University. Prof Ono gave a seminar on "Current-induced Domain Wall Motion and Its Application".
December 2014
Official establishment of the Singapore Spintronics Consortium (SG-SPIN).
December 2014
Lun's paper "All-electrical single domain wall generation for on-chip applications" is published in Scientific Reports.
December 2014
Weiliang has won a URECA Journal Publication Award, well done!
November 2014
We have given five presentations in the 59th MMM conference, with an additional two from our collaborators.
September 2014
Weiliang's paper "Multi-vortex states in magnetic nanoparticles" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
September 2014
Chandra's paper on the "Direct observation of domain wall evolution at a bifurcation in magnetic network structures" is published in Applied Physics Express.
September 2014
Wai Cheung joined our group as Project Officer, Welcome onboard!
September 2014
Shawn has been selected by the MMM 2014 Steering Committee for a Student Travel Grant to give a presentation at the MMM conference, Hawaii.
September 2014
We have given six presentations in the Singapore IEEE Magnetics Symposium 2014, and Weiliang was given a Commendation Award.
September 2014
Senfu joined our group as visiting PhD student, Welcome onboard!
August 2014
Josephine, Michelle, Soo Kuan, Ee Liang, Jun Xiang, Chin Sheng and Shane are registered as 2014/2015 FYP students with our group, Welcome onboard!
August 2014
Shawn and Andhita are registered as 2014/2015 URECA-FYP students with our group, Welcome onboard!
August 2014
Calvin, Han Kheng, Tony and Desmond are registered as 2014/2015 URECA students with our group, Welcome onboard!
August 2014
Chandra passed his PhD oral defense, Congratulations!
August 2014
We are appointed by NRF as a member of the Singapore Spintronics Consortium technology management committee.
August 2014
Shawn won a prize in the 2014 DISCOVER URECA@NTU Poster Competition, well done!
August 2014
Prof Xiangrong Wang from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology gave a talk on "Domain wall motion and Spin wave".
July 2014
Dr Kwon Jae Suk is attached to our group for several months for the "Ultra low power neuromorphic computing with spin devices" project, Welcome onboard!
July 2014
Gerard completed three Technology Disclosures for a joint-venture commercial development of physical vapour system.
July 2014
Sachin and Indra's paper on the "Remote walker breakdown and coupling breaking in parallel nanowire systems" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
July 2014
Sihua joined our group as graduate student, Welcome onboard!
July 2014
Shawn, Weiliang and Gerard hosted lab visit for undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Eindhoven University of Technology.
July 2014
Prof Roy Kaushik from Purdue University gave a talk on "Spin as State Variable for Computation: Prospects and Perspectives".
July 2014
Gerard hosted lab visit for undergraduate student from La Trobe University.
June 2014
We are now a member of NTU's Silicon Technology, Centre of Excellence.
June 2014
Successful commissioning of our Park's System AFM/MFM.
June 2014
Successful commissioning of our AJA ion milling system.
May 2014
Ramu passed his PhD qualifying exam, well done!
May 2014
Successful commissioning of our AJA 8-target magnetron sputtering system.
May 2014
Ramu's paper on the "Investigation of dominant spin wave modes by domain walls collision" is now published in Journal of Applied Physics.
May 2014
2nd Workshop on Non-volatile Magnetic Memory and Logic Devices was successfully held.
May 2014
We have given five presentations in the Dresden Intermag conference, Germany.
April 2014
We have given four presentations in the Antalya ICSM conference, Turkey.
April 2014
Dr Huang Xiaohu joined our group as senior research fellow, Welcome onboard!
March 2014
Indra's paper on the "Remote driving of multiple magnetic domain walls due to topological interaction" is published in Applied Physics Letters.
February 2014
Chandra's paper on the "Depinning assisted by domain wall deformation in cylindrical NiFe nanowires" is published in Journal of Applied Physics.
January 2014
Weiliang is registered as 2013/2014 URECA-FYP student with our group, Welcome onboard!
January 2014
Xiaolei is registered as 2013/2014 FYP student with our group, Welcome onboard!
January 2014
Christian and Feilong joined our group as graduate students, Welcome onboard!