Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMN, 2001-present
Director, Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies, 2003-present
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMN, 1998-2001
Research Associate, Kodak Research Laboratories, 1991-1998
Segment Leader, Ultra Capacity Optical Disk Project, 1995-1997
Senior Research Scientist, Kodak Research Laboratories, 1985-1991

Selected Publications

Yu. Dobin and R.H. Victora, "Surface Roughness Induced Extrinsic Damping in Thin Magnetic Films", Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 257204, (2004)

J.P. Wang, W.K. Shen, J.M. Bai, R.H. Victora, J.H. Judy, and W.L. Song, "Composite Media (Dynamic Tilted Media) for Magnetic Recording", Applied Physics Letters 86, 142504 (2005)

A. Misra and R.H. Victora, "Ferromagnetic Relaxation by Magnon Induced Currents", Phys. Rev. B 73, 172414 (2006)

R.H. Victora, "Thin Film Magnetodielectric for Absorption of a Broad Band of Electromagnetic Radiation", US patent 6,441,771

A. Yu. Dobin and R.H. Victora, "Intrinsic non-linear ferromagnetic relaxation in thin metallic films", Physical Review Letters 90, 167203 (2003).

R.H. Victora and X. Shen, "Composite Media for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording", IEEE Trans. Magn. 41, 537 (2005)

J. Saha and R.H. Victora, "Large Scale Micromagnetic Simulation for the Exchange Interaction between a Polycrystalline Antiferromagnet and a Ferromagnet", Phys. Rev. B 73, 104433, (2006)

A. Yu. Dobin and R.H. Victora, "Intrinsic Non-linear Ferromagnetic Relaxation (invited)", J. Appl. Phys. 95, 7139 (2004)

N. Speetzen, B.J.H. Stadler, E. Yuan, R.H. Victora, X. Qi, J.H. Judy, N. Supper, and T. Pokhil, "Co/Pd Multilayers for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media",J. Magn. Mag. Mat. 287, 181 (2005).

S. Hernandez, M. Kapoor, and R.H. Victora, "Synthetic Antiferromagnet for Hard Layer of Exchange Coupled Composite Media", Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 132505 (2007).