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Jason Ryan (Fed)

Dr. Ryan is leader of the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Project in the Alternative Computing Group in the Nanoscale Device Characterization Division of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML). He received the B.S. degree in Physics from Millersville University, Millersville, PA in 2004. He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA in 2006 and 2010, respectively. In 2010, he was awarded a National Research Council (NRC) post-doctoral fellowship which he spent at NIST where he is still currently employed. He has contributed to more than 65 peer reviewed technical publications and over 100 presentations at international conferences. Dr. Ryan also holds 3 patents. He has been heavily involved in the technical and managerial committees of both the IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium and IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop conferences, having served as General Chair of the latter in 2015. His research interests involve utilizing magnetic resonance spectroscopy to understand the physics and kinetics of atomic-scale defects responsible for critical failure and drift mechanisms in advanced electronic devices and materials.

Projects

Selected Publications

Publications

Continuum of Spin Excitations in the Exactly Solvable Triangular-Lattice Spin Liquid CeMgAl11O19

Author(s)
Bin Gao, Tong Chen, Chunxaio Liu, Mason Klemm, Shu Zhang, Zhen Ma, Xianghan Xu, CHOONGJAE WON, Dongzhe Dai, Gregory McCandless, Maiko Kofu, Naoki Murai, Stephen Moxim, Jason Ryan, Xiaozhou Huang, Xiaoping Wang, Julia Chan, Shiyan Li, Sang-Wook Cheong, Oleg Tchernyshyov, Leon Balents, Pengcheng Dai
In magnetically ordered insulators, elementary quasiparticles manifest as spin waves - collective motions of localized magnetic moments that propagate through

Programmable electrical coupling between stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions

Author(s)
Sidra Gibeault, Temitayo Adeyeye, Liam Pocher, Daniel Lathrop, Matthew Daniels, Mark Stiles, Jabez J. McClelland, William Borders, Jason Ryan, Philippe Talatchian, Ursula Ebels, Advait Madhavan
Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (SMTJs) are promising sources of randomness for compact and energy efficient implementations of various probabilistic

Patents (2018-Present)

Non-Resonant Electron Spin Resonant Probe And Associated Hardware

NIST Inventors
Jason Campbell , Jason Ryan , Kin (Charles) Cheung , Robert Gougelet and Pragya Shrestha
This invention details a non-resonant probe designed to measure changes in the density of broken bonds (unpaired electrons) in materials exposed to ionizing radiation. The probe functions to excite and detect electron spin resonance transitions in these materials. Accumulated radiation dose can then
Image of diagrams for the Classic Mach - Zehnder interferometer, Microwae transmission line based vserion, and guided wave probe tip interacts with sample

Phase Shift Detector Process for Making and Use of Same

NIST Inventors
Kin (Charles) Cheung , Jason Ryan and Jason Campbell
The detector senses very small phase shifts in a highly balanced microwave bridge. An electric field optimized microwave probe, in close proximity to a sample, serves to perturb the degree of bridge balance due to a .change in effective dielectric constant of the sample. The major innovation
Created March 12, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022