Principal Investigator Caroline Ross
Project Website http://caross.mit.edu/
Professor Ross’s group research is directed towards the following areas:
(*) Fabrication of magnetic films, multilayers and small magnetic structures, with applications in magnetic logic, magnetic random access memory, hard disks, and bit-patterned media.
(*) Magnetooptical oxides including perovskites and other oxides for use in integrated optical components such as magnetooptical isolators.
(*) Self-assembly of block copolymers, with particular application to nanolithography, and in other self-assembling systems such as dewetting of thin metal films and porous alumina formation.
We maintain a Thin Film Laboratory which includes a pulsed laser deposition system and an ultra-high vacuum sputter system, in addition to a range of magnetic, magnetooptical and magnetoelectronic characterization equipment. For an introduction to self-assembly, see the movies in our Outreach section.
The Ross Group at MIT's Department of Materials Science carries out research in thin film magnetism, magnetic device, and self-assembly. Current research includes magnetic devices for memory and logic, magnetooptical materials for integrated photonic devices, templated self-assembly of block copolymers for nanolithography, templated self-assembly of heterostructured oxide and metal film dewetting and deposition of films using sputtering, evaporation and pulsed laser deposition.