Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 2007 - present
Graduate Faculty, Physics, UMN, 2003 - present
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 2001 - 2007

Selected Publications

"Characterization of pattern transfer in the fabrication of magnetic nanostructure arrays by block copolymer lithography", T. Kubo, J.S. Parker, M.A. Hillmyer and C. Leighton, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90 233113 (2007)

"Optimized dielectric properties of SrTiO₃:Nb / SrTiO₃ (001) epitaxial films for high field effect charge densities", X. Cai, C.D. Frisbie, and C. Leighton, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 242915 (2006)

"Exchange bias as a probe of the incommensurate spin density wave in epitaxial Fe/Cr (001)", J.S. Parker, L. Wang, K.A. Steiner, P.A. Crowell and C. Leighton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 227206 (2006)

"Evolution with composition of the d-band density of states at the Fermi level in highly spin-polarized Co_1-xFe_xS₂", P.L. Kuhns, M.J.R. Hoch, A.P. Reyes, W.G. Moulton, L. Wang, and C. Leighton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 167208 (2006)

"Co_1-xFe_xS₂: a tunable source of highly spin-polarized electrons", L. Wang, K. Umemoto, R.M. Wentzcovitch, T.Y. Chen, C.L. Chien, J. Checkelsky, J. Eckert, E.D. Dahlberg, and C. Leighton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 056602 (2005)

"Direct measurement of the low temperature spin-state transition in LaCoO₃", R.F. Klie, J.C. Zheng, Y. Zhu, M. Varela, J. Wu and C. Leighton, in press, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2007)

"Artificial spin ice in a geometrically frustrated lattice of nanoscale ferromagnetic islands", R. F. Wang, C. Nisoli, R. Freitas, J. Li, W. McConville, B.J. Cooley, M.S. Lund, N. Samarth, C. Leighton, V.H. Crespi and P. Schiffer, Nature 439 303 (2006)

"Inter-granular giant magnetoresistance in a spontaneously phase separated perovskite oxide", J. Wu, J.W. Lynn, C. Glinka, J. Burley, H. Zheng, J.F. Mitchell and C. Leighton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 037201 (2005)

"Magnetic phase separation in La_1-xSr_xCoO₃ from ⁵⁹Co NMR", P.L. Kuhns, M.J.R. Hoch, W.G. Moulton, A.P. Reyes, J.Wu and C. Leighton Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 127202 (2003)

"Anomalous magnetotransport properties of epitaxial full Heusler alloys", M.S. Lund, J.W. Dong, J. Lu, X. Dong, C.J. Palmstrøm and C. Leighton, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80 4798 (2002)