kurth
append @tcd.ie
Home: Turkey
Position:Research Fellow
Education: PhD in Physics, Michigan State University 2005
Specialities: Spin transport in layered structures and nanowires,
Nanoelectronics
Current Projects: STT in nanowires, MTJ with MgO barriers
Activities/Interests: Tennis, Table Tennis, Chess, Video games
Brief Bio:
Born in Samsun , Turkey in 1977.
Received BS in Physics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey in 1999
Received PhD in Physics from Michigan State University in East Lansing MI in
2005. Postdoc at Rowland Institute at Harvard, Boston MA until April 2007
Postdoc at TCD continuing...
Select Publications:
1. Effect of asymmetric leads on critical switching currents of nanopillars,
H. Kurt, M. Alhajdarwish, W. P. Pratt Jr. and J. Bass, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89,
082513 (2006)
2. Pd/Ag and Pd/Au interface specific resistances and interfacial spin
flipping,
C. Galinon, K. Tewolde, R.Loloee, W. -C. Chiang, S. Olson, H. Kurt, W.P.
Pratt,Jr., J.Bass, P.
X. Xu, Ke Xia and M. Talanana, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 182502 (2005)
3. Manipulating Current Induced Magnetization Switching, S. Urazhdin,H.
Kurt, M. AlHajDarwish,
Norman O. Birge, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and J. Bass , J.Appl. Phys. 97, 10C701
(2005)
4. Current-induced Magnetization Switching in Permalloy-based nanopillars
with Cu, Ag, and Au,
H. Kurt, R. Loloee, W.P. Pratt Jr., and J. Bass, J.Appl. Phys. 97, 10C706
(2005)
5. Changes in Magnetic Scattering Anisotropy at a
Ferromagnetic/Superconducting Interface,
K .Eid, H. Kurt, W.P. Pratt Jr. and J. Bass, Phys. Rev. B70, 100411(R)
(2004)
6. Controlled Normal and Inverse Current-Induced Magnetization Switching and
Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Nanopillars, M. AlHajDarwish, H. Kurt, S.
Urazhdin, A. Fert,
R.Loloee, W.P. Pratt Jr., and J. Bass, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 157203 (2004)
7. Effect of antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling on current-assisted
magnetization switching,
S. Urazhdin, H. Kurt, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and J. Bass, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83,
114-116 (2003)
8. Spin-memory loss and current-perpendicular-to-plane-magnetoresistance in
sputtered
multilayers with Au, H. Kurt, Wen-C. Chiang, C. Ritz, K. Eid, W. P. Pratt,
Jr., and J. Bass
J.Appl. Phys. 93, 7918-7920 (2003)
9. Spin-memory loss at 4.2 K in sputtered Pd and Pt and at Pd/Cu and Pt/Cu
interfaces,
H. Kurt, R. Loloee, K. Eid, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and J. Bass, Appl. Phys. Lett.
81, 4787-4789 (2002)
10. Absence of mean-free-path effects in the current-perpendicular-to-plane
magnetoresistance of
magnetic multilayers, K. Eid, D. Portner, J. A. Borchers, R. Loloee, M.
Al-Haj Darwish, M. Tsoi,
R. D. Slater, K. V. O'Donovan, H. Kurt, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and J. Bass, Phys.
Rev. B 65, 054424
(2002)
