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Robert D. McMichael (Fed)
Robert (Bob) McMichael is a Project Leader in the Nanoscale Processes and Measurements Group in the Nanoscale Device Characterization Division. He received a B.S. in Engineering-Physics from Pacific Lutheran University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ohio State University. He came to NIST on an NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 1990, served on the research staff of the Metallurgy Division in the Materials Science and Engineering Lab, and then joined the CNST in 2007. Bob's research at NIST has touched on a broad spectrum of phenomena in magnetic thin films and nanomaterials, but remains centered on micromagnetics and magnetization dynamics. He has over 160 peer-reviewed publications, and is a frequent invited speaker at international meetings. In 2004 Bob was selected as an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer, and in 2009 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Bob has received NIST's Samuel Wesley Stratton Award and Bronze Medal Award, and also the Silver Medal Award from the US Department of Commerce.
Selected Programs/Projects
Selected Publications
- Spectroscopic defect imaging in magnetic nanostructure arrays, H.-J. Chia, F. Guo, L. M. Belova, and R. D. McMichael, Applied Physics Letters 101, 042408 (2012).
NIST Publication Database - Nanoscale spin wave localization using ferromagnetic resonance force microscopy, H.-J. Chia, F. Guo, L. M. Belova, and R. D. McMichael, Physical Review Letters 108, 087206 (2012).
NIST Publication Database Journal Web Site - Enhanced magnetization drift velocity and current polarization in (CoFe)1−xGex alloys, M. Zhu, B. D. Soe, R. D. McMichael, M. J. Carey, S. Maat, and J. R. Childress, Applied Physics Letters 98, 072510 (2011).
NIST Publication Database Journal Web Site - Modification of edge mode dynamics by oxidation in Ni80 Fe20 thin film edges, M. Zhu and R. D. McMichael, Journal of Applied Physics 107, 103908 (2010).
NIST Publication Database - Edge saturation fields and dynamic edge modes in ideal and nonideal magnetic film edges, R. D. McMichael and B. B. Maranville, Physical Review B, 74(2), 024424 (2006).