Nitin Samarth is Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics in the Eberly College of Science and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, where he also served as the George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Department Head of physics from 2011-2023.[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 23,000 citations (GoogleScholar).[6]
Samarth is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2003)[7] and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013.[8] In 2024, he received the David Adler Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society.[9] His other honors include the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Bombay(2019), the Outstanding Physics Alumnus Award from Purdue University (2008), the Faculty Scholar Medal in the Physical Sciences from Penn State(2008) and the George W. Atherton Award for Teaching Excellence from Penn State (2007).
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- ^ "Nitin Samarth — Penn State Department of Physics". www.phys.psu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
- ^ "Spintronics". Scientific American. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2014Natur.511..449M. doi:10.1038/nature13534. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 25056062. S2CID 205239604.
- ^ "Nitin Samarth". Retrieved September 16, 2022.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
- ^ "Samarth Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — Eberly College of Science". science.psu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
- ^ "Samarth honored with Adler Lectureship Award from American Physical Society". Retrieved 2024-06-09.
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