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Meet the Faculty and Staff
Approximately nine faculty members and senior researchers in the Departments
of Materials Science and Eng. (Shan Wang, Bruce Clemens, Bob Sinclair, Robert M. White, Robert Wilson),
Applied Physics (Kam Moler), Electrical Engineering
(Shan Wang, Robert L. White), and the Stanford
Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (Joachim Stohr,
Hans Siegmann) are involved with the Center.
Director: Prof. Shan X. Wang
 Dr. Shan Wang leads the Stanford Center
for Magnetic Nanotechnology with about nine faculty members and senior
researchers from Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics
and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Labs. The Center interacts regularly with
the data storage industry and emerging nanotechnology companies, and conducts
successful annual reviews, workshops and conferences under the flag of Magnetics Forum. Dr. Wang also
spearheaded the fund raising efforts to found the Nanomagnetics Facility which houses a state of the art
nanoimprinting tool, “cluster” deposition and etching tools for
magneto-nano sensors, a new alternating gradient magnetometer, a high field
hysteresis loop tracer, and a conducting atomic force microscope.
Dr. Wang is the principal
investigator for a major multidisciplinary grant on bio-detection based on
magnetic nanoparticles and sensors sponsored by DARPA involving Stanford
School of Engineering, Stanford School of Medicine, and Brown University.
He is a Project Leader in the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
focused on Therapeutic Reponse (CCNE-TR) awarded by National Cancer Institute
(NCI). He sits on the faculty advisory board of the Stanford Nanofabrication
Facility. Dr. Wang’s other major administrative/leadership experience
includes: Finance Chair and Administrative Committee member of IEEE Magnetics
Society, and Program Chair or committee member for major magnetics
conferences. He has considerable knowledge with respect to
university-industry collaborations, technology transfer, and intellectual
property issues. Dr. Wang was among the inaugural group of
Frederick Terman Faculty Fellows at Stanford University
(94-97), and an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer (2001-2002). He
also received an IBM Partnership Award in 1999, and was selected to the
CUSPEA program organized by Nobel Laureate T. D. Lee in 1986. Dr. Wang
received the B.S. degree in physics from the University
of Science and Technology of China
in 1986, the M.S. in physics from Iowa
State University
in 1988, and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at Pittsburgh
in 1993.
Group website: http://www.stanford.edu/group/wang_group
Executive Director: Prof. Robert M. White
 As the executive
director of the Center Dr. Bob M. White brings his wealth of
experiences in academia, industry and government to build up and guide the
research and membership outreach activities in the Center. In particular, he
will co-supervise graduate students and help to run the Magnetics Forum.
Dr. Robert M. White
(not to be confused with Robert L. White) joined the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering as a Consulting Professor in 2004. Prof. White moved
back to Palo Alto after becoming Emeritus
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie
Mellon University
where he served as Department Head from 1993 until 1999 and Director of the Data Storage
Systems Center
there from 1999 until 2004. He has had a long association with Stanford,
having received his Ph.D. in Physics here in 1964, served as Assistant
Professor of Physics (1966-70) and also a Consulting Professor of Applied
Physics (1975-90). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
in 2003 received the George Pake Prize from the American Physical Society.
His research interests include magnetic phenomena related to data storage and
spintronics, paralleling those of Profs. Shan Wang, Bruce Clemens, Bob
Sinclair, Jochaim Stohr, and the other Bob White. He is currently working on
spin-current-induced switching of magnetic materials as well as writing the
3rd edition of his book, "Quantum Theory of Magnetism." He serves
on the Science Advisory Board of the Data Storage Institute in Singapore
and on the boards of Silicon Graphics and STMicroelectronics.
Manager for Nanomagnetics Facility: Dr. Robert J. Wilson
 As the Manager of the Nanomagnetics Facility Dr. Robert Wilson leads the daily
operation of the Facility and interacts with the graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows regularly. He also directly participates in the research
projects on magnetic nanopartices, nanoimprinting, biosensing, and biochips.
Dr. Robert Wilson is a
Senior Research Associate in the Department of Materials Science &
Engineering at Stanford
University. His current
research focuses on magneto-nano sensors and the use of nanoimprint
lithography based fabrication for the creation and chemical functionalization
of nanostructures and nanoparticles made from a variety of materials,
including multilayer magnetic films. Dr. Wilson has been involved in
nanotechnology research since his pioneering efforts at IBM Research used
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to first reveal the atomic corrugation and
structure of close packed metal surfaces and the internal structure of
individual molecules. He has also contributed and retains interests in
diverse areas including magnetic resonance, positron annihilation, various
microscopies, surface analysis methods, and thin film deposition and
patterning techniques. Dr. Wilson has published over 60 papers, holds 9
issued patents, and received many IBM awards for his research and patents.
Dr. Wilson received his B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley in 1972
and 1982, respectively, and his M.S. in physics from University of Chicago
in 1974.
Professor Bruce M.
Clemens
Dr. Clemens received his B.S. in Engineering-Physics from the Colorado School
 of Mines in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D.
in Applied Physics from Caltech in 1979 and 1983 respectively. He then went
to the Physics Department of the General Motors Research Laboratories where
he worked on thin metal films, interface reactions and multilayer structures.
In 1989 he joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering at Stanford
University as an
Assistant Professor. In 1993 he was promoted to Associate Professor with
tenure, and he served as the Chair of the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering from 1999 to 2004. He has a courtesy appointment in
the Department of Applied Physics and is also a professor in Stanford
Synchrotron Radiation Lab.
Dr. Clemens and his group study the growth, structure, magnetic properties,
and mechanical properties of thin films and nanostructured materials. By
controlling growth and atomic scale structure, he is able to tune and
optimize properties. He is currently investigating materials for
metallization, magnetic recording, electronic device, and hydrogen storage
applications. He was the 1995 recipient of the ASM Silver Medal for Research
and was a Visiting Professor at the Max-Planck Institute in Stuttgart for the last half of 1995.
Group website: http://mse.stanford.edu/faculty/clemens.html
Professor Bob
Sinclair
Dr. Sinclair received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science from Cambridge University. After holding research
positions at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the University
of California, Berkeley,
he joined the faculty of Stanford
University, Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, in 1977. He has been directing Stanford
Nanocharacterization Lab since 2000. He became the Chair of the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2004.
Dr. Sinclair's research centers on the
application of high resolution transmission electron spectroscopy (TEM) to a
wide range of materials problems. TEM provides imaging of materials at the
atomic level, and therefore provides microstructural information necessary
for the understanding of structural, electrical, and magnetic properties of
materials. Dr. Sinclair's research has included materials of interest both to
microelectronics and to magnetic data storage.
Dr. Sinclair has received a number of
prestigious awards for his research, including; The Robert Lansing Hardy Gold
Medal of the Metallurgical Society of the AIME, the Eli Franklin Burton Award
of the Electron Microscopy Society of America, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship,
and the Marcus E. Grossman Award of the American Society for Metals. He has
also received an award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Stanford.
He is very active in several professional societies and in the organization
of symposia and workshops on electron microscopy.
Group website: http://mse.stanford.edu/faculty/sinclair.html
Professor Kam
Moler
Dr. Moler received her B. S. in 1988 and her Ph.D. in 1995, both from Stanford University. She then performed
her postdoctoral research at Princeton and at IBM, Yorktown Heights.
She joined the Applied Physics Department as an Assistant Professor in fall
1998. Now she is an associate professor in applied physics and physics, and
directs the NSF
Center for Probing at
Nanoscale.
Prof. Moler received the Stanford Centennial Teaching Award in 1990 and the
Kirkpatrick Award for excellence in teaching in 1992. She received a
prestigious R. H. Dicke postdoctoral fellowship in 1995. As a faculty member
she received a Frederick E. Terman Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan
Fellowhship, an NSF CAREER award, a William L. McMillan Award (1999), and a
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Dr. Moler's research interests include local magnetic probes for nanoscale
studies, microscopy and Imaging, physics of
nanostructured materials, superconductivity, and experimental condensed matter.
Group website: http://www.stanford.edu/group/moler/
Professor Robert L. White
 Dr. Bob
L. White received his B.A. in physics and mathematics from Columbia College
in 1949 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University
in 1951 and 1954 respectively. Upon completion of his graduate studies at Columbia University, Dr. White joined the staff
of the Hughes Research Laboratories. There he participated in and directed
investigations in the areas of ferromagnetic resonance, paramagnetic
resonance and optical spectroscopy, leaving Hughes in 1961 to join General
Telephone and Electronic Laboratories in Palo Alto as Head of the Magnetics Department.
Dr. White joined the faculty of Stanford
University in May of
1963. He was the William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering
1983-1988, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering
1976-1981, and Chairman from 1981-1986. From 1987 until 1990 he was Director
of the Exploratorium science museum in San
Francisco. He is the founding Director of the Stanford Center
for Research on Information Storage Materials, the predecessor to the Stanford Center for Magnetic Nanotechnology.
His present research centers on magnetic thin films and multilayers for data
storage and biosensing applications. His focus is on GMR, new materials and
understanding the physical origins of the phenomenon, and on patterned media
for ultra-high density data storage. He has published over 130 articles in
the areas of his technical interest, edited two books, and written another.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He
was a Guggenheim Fellow to Oxford University in 1969 - 1970 and to the ETH in Zurich in 1978, a visiting professor to the University of Tokyo
in 1975, and a Christensen Fellow to Oxford
in 1986.
Group website: http://mse.stanford.edu/faculty/white.html
Professor Joachaim Stohr
Dr. Stohr received his B.S. in Physics from Friedrich
Wilhelms University
in Bonn, his M.S. in Physics from Washington State University
(as a Fulbright scholar) and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Technical
University of Munich. After receiving his Ph.D. he spent a year as a
post-doctoral fellow at Berkeley
at their synchrotron radiation laboratory (ALS). Dr. Stohr joined the
technical staff of IBM's Almaden Research Center
in 1985 and was a Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He joined Stanford as a
full professor and Deputy Director of Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab in
2000. He is a fellow of American Physical Society.
Dr. Stohr's research has focused on the development of novel investigative
techniques based on synchrotron radiation for exploring the structure and
properties of surfaces and thin films. He played a major role in developing
surface extended x-ray absorption fine structure (SEXAFS) as a tool for
exploring surface structures, especially for adsorbate geometrics on
surfaces. He then developed near edge x-ray absorption fine structure
(NEXAFS) as a technique for the study of simple and complex molecules bonded
to surfaces and for the study of thin organic (polymeric) films. These two
techniques have become widely used, and Dr. Stohr has written definitive
reviews of both fields.
More recently Dr. Stohr has turned his attention to the use of x-ray magnetic
circular dichroism (XMCD) and photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM) in
magnetic materials. XMCD allows element-specific measurement of magnetic
moments, and can resolve these moments into spin- and orbit-derived moments.
This technique also is capable of measuring the separate geometric components
of magnetic moment. XMCD has been used to establish the degree of magnetic
polarization of non-magnetic spacer metals in magnetic multilayers and, by
measuring the components of orbital angular momentum, to illuminate the
origins of interfacial magnetic anisotropy. His group has used PEEM to image
exchange bias at the interface and current-driven spin switching.
Group website: http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/stohr/
Professor Hans Siegmann
Dr. Siegmann received his Diploma in Physics from Ludwig Maximilian
University of Munich in 1959 and Dr.rer.nat. with W. Gerlach, LMU Munich in 1961. He
became a Physicist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at LMU Munich in
1962, a Senior Research Fellow at University
of Edinburgh in 1965, a Lecturer at
ETH Zurich and LMU, Munich
in 1967, and a Full Professor, ETH Zurich,
in 1974. He is now a visiting professor at SLAC.
Dr. Siegmann was elected a Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen
Volkes; in 1961, a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989, a Member
of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europeae in 1991, and received the 1992
R.W. Pohl Prize of the German Physical Society.
Dr. Siegmann's research interests include
spectroscopy
with spin polarized electrons, surface science with nanosized particles in a
carrier gas, surface and thin film magnetism, electron scattering in magnetic
materials and hot spin injection, and magnetism with ultrashort magnetic
field pulses.
Group website: http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/siegmann/
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