Robert Owings

Applied Materials

Projects

A combinatorial sputtering approach to magnetic properties modification of FeCoB

Lead Institution

Applied Materials

Principal Investigator

Robert Owings

Project type

Exploratory Research

Recent improvements in magnetic devices using amorphous soft magnetic FeCoB have shown the highest tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) to date with a resistivity change of 70.4%. Further investigation…

A Combinatorial Sputtering Approach to Properties Modification in Polaron Conducting Films

Lead Institution

Applied Materials

Principal Investigator

Robert Owings

Project type

Exploratory Research

The influence of sputtering parameters and cation composition on measured resistivity and optical transparency of mixed transition metal spinel oxides (AB2O4) will be systematically studied. A two…

Continued investigation into the spinel nickel-cobalt oxide system.

Lead Institution

Applied Materials

Principal Investigator

Robert Owings

Project type

Exploratory Research

Past work with the nickel cobalt oxide thin films has yielded new and interesting data with respect to the nature of charge motion and the charge distribution within the spinel lattice. The nickel…