Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSB, 2007-present
Amundson Chair Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 2004-2007
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 1998-2004
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 1994-1998
Member of Technical Staff, Bellcore, 1985-1994

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, 197-202 (2007)

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, 112511-1-3 (2006)

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, 176603-1-4 (2006)

X. Y. Dong, C. Adelmann, J. Q. Xie, C. J. Palmstrøm, X. Lou, J. Strand, P. A. Crowell, and A. K. Petford-Long, "Spin injection from Heusler alloy Co2MnGe into Al0.1Ga0.9As/GaAs heterostructures", Appl. Phys. Lett., 86, 102107-1-3 (2005)

S. A. Crooker, M. Furis, X. Lou, C. Adelmann, D. L. Smith, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell, "Imaging spin injection and accumulation in lateral ferromagnet/semiconductor devices", Science, 309, 2191-95 (2005).

C. Adelmann, J. Q. Xie, C. J. Palmstrøm, J. Strand, X. Lou, J. Wang, and P. A. Crowell, "Effects of doping profile and post-growth annealing on spin injection from Fe into (Al,Ga)As heterostructures", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 23, 1747-51 (2005)

B. D. Schultz and C. J. Palmstrøm, "Embedded assembly mechanism of stable metal nanocrystals on semiconductor surfaces", Phys Rev B (Rapid Com), 73, 241407-1-4 (2006)

J. Q. Xie, J. Lu, J. W. Dong, X. Y. Dong, T. C. Shih, S. McKernan, and C. J. Palmstrøm, "Effects of growth temperature on the structural and magnetic properties of epitaxial Ni2MnIn thin films on InAs (001)", J. Appl. Phys., 97, 073901-1-7 (2005)

M. J. Pechan, C. Yu, D. Carr, and C. J. Palmstrøm, "Remarkable strain-induced magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial Co₂MnGa (001) films", J. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 286, 340-45 (2005)

J. L. Hilton, B. D. Schultz, S. McKernan, S. M. Spanton, M. M. R. Evans, and C. J. Palmstrøm, "Phase behavior of thin film Mn/GaAs interfacial reactions", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 23, 1752-58 (2005).