Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Associate Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota, 2003 - present
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota, 1997 - 2003

Selected Publications

X. Lou, C. Adelmann, S. A. Crooker, E. S. Garlid, J. Zhang, S. M. Reddy, S. D. Flexner, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell,"Electrical Detection of Spin Transport in Lateral Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Devices," Nature Physics 3, 197 (2007)

X. Lou, C. Adelmann, M. Furis, S. A. Crooker, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell,"Electrical Detection of Spin Accumulation at a Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Interface," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176603 (2006)

S. A. Crooker, M. Furis, X. Lou, C. Adelmann, D. L. Smith, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell,"Imaging Spin Transport in Lateral Ferromagnet/semiconductor Structures," Science 309, 2191(2005)

D. Engebretson, W.A.A. Macedo, Ivan K. Schuller, P. A. Crowell, and C. Leighton,"Time Domain Dynamics of the Asymmetric Magnetization Reversal in Exchange Biased Bilayers," Phys. Rev. B 71 184412 (2005)

X. Y. Dong, C. Adelmann, J. Q. Xie, C. J. Palmstrøm, X. Lou, J. Strand, P. A. Crowell, J.-P. Barnes, and A.K. Petford-Long,"Spin Injection from the Heusler Alloy Co2MnGe into Al0.1Ga0.9As/GaAs Heterostructures," Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 102107 (2005). J. S. Parker, L. Wang, K. A. Steiner, P. A. Crowell, and C. Leighton,"Exchange Bias as a Probe of the Incommensurate Spin-Density Wave in Fe/Cr (001)," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 227206 (2006)

C. Adelmann, J. L. Hilton, B. D. Schultz, S. McKernan, C. J. Palmstrøm, X. Lou, H.-S. Chiang, and P. A. Crowell,"Spin Injection from Perpendicular Magnetized Ferromagnetic δ-MnGa into (Al,Ga)As Heterostructures," Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 112511 (2006)

C. Adelmann, X. Lou, J. Strand, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell,"Spin Injection and Relaxation in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures," Phys. Rev. B 71, 121301(R) (2005)

J. P. Park and P. A. Crowell,"Interactions of Spin Waves with a Magnetic Vortex," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167201 (2005)

J. P. Park, P. Eames, D. M. Engebretson, J. Berezovsky, and P. A. Crowell,"Imaging of Spin Dynamics in Closure Domain and Vortex Structures," Phys. Rev. B 67, 020403(R) (2003).