Faculty
Caroline A. Ross
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Associate Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Toyota Professor of Materials Science and Engineering B.A., Cambridge University, U.K. 1985 Ph.D., Cambridge University, U.K., 1988 Room 13-4005, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 617-258-0223 (phone) 617-252-1020 (fax) |
Disciplines
Research
Prof. Ross' research is directed towards the magnetic properties of thin films and small structures, particularly for data storage and logic applications, and towards methods for creating nanoscale structures based on self-assembly and lithography. Current research on magnetic materials includes the synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanostructures for domain wall logic devices, the behavior of 360 degree domain walls, magnetic metallic particles formed by templated dewetting, magnetoelasticity, magnetic perovskites such as Fe- and Co-substituted strontium titanate, magnetooptical materials for integrated optical isolators, and self-assembled oxide nanocomposites. They also study the self-assembly of block copolymers and develop methods for templating self-assembly in order to form well-organized structures useful in nanoscale devices. Their Thin Film Laboratory includes a pulsed laser deposition system and an ultra-high vacuum sputter system, in addition to a range of magnetic, magnetooptical, and magnetoelectronic characterization equipment.
Selected Publications
"On-chip optical isolation in monolithically integrated nonreciprocal optical resonators," Lei Bi, Juejun Hu, Peng Jiang, Dong Hun Kim, Gerald F. Dionne, Lionel C. Kimerling and C. A. Ross, Nature Photonics (2011)
"Magnetoelastic effects in SrTi1−xMxO3 (M = Fe, Co, or Cr) epitaxial thin films," Dong Hun Kim, Lei Bi, Peng Jiang, Gerald F. Dionne, C.A. Ross, Phys. Rev. B 84 014416 (2011)
"AC and DC Current-Induced Motion of a 360˚ Domain Wall," M.D. Mascaro, C.A. Ross, Phys. Rev. B 82, 214411 (2010)
"Shape and Strain-induced magnetization reorientation and magnetic anisotropy in thin film CoCrPt/Ti rings and lines," D.A. Navas, C. Nam, D. Velazquez, C.A. Ross, Phys. Rev. B 81 224439 (2010) p1–11
"Complex self-assembled patterns using sparse commensurate templates with locally varying motifs," Joel K. W. Yang, Yeon Sik Jung, Jae-Byum Chang, Caroline A. Ross, and Karl K. Berggren, Nature Nanotechnology 5, 256–260 (2010)
"Graphoepitaxy of self-assembled block copolymers on 2D periodic patterned templates," Ion Bita, Joel K.W. Yang, Yeon Sik Jung, Caroline A. Ross, Edwin L. Thomas, Karl K. Berggren,Science 321 (5821) p939–943 (2008)
Related News
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Innovative complex self-assembly Professor Ross, Professor Alexander-Katz, and their collaborators have developed a new technique that allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step. |
July 19, 2012 |
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Self-assembled structures Professor Caroline Ross, Professor Alfredo Alexander-Katz, and their colleagues have found a new way of making complex three-dimensional structures using self-assembling polymer materials that form |
June 8, 2012 |
| Step toward computing with light | November 28, 2011 |
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Prof. Ross to be DMSE Associate Head Professor Caroline A. Ross will serve as Associate Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, effective Oct. 13, 2011. |
October 14, 2011 |
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Wulff Lecture, April 13, Prof. Caroline Ross Please join us for the Spring 2010 Wulff Lecture, on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 4:30pm, in 1-190. A reception will follow. |
April 12, 2010 |
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Prof. Ross and colleagues developing self assembling computer chips Molecules that arrange themselves into predictable patterns on silicon chips could lead to microprocessors with much smaller circuit elements. |
March 17, 2010 |
