Jeffrey Bokor
UC Berkeley
Picosecond Spintronics for On-Chip Memory Applications
We have demonstrated that picosecond charge current pulses are effective at initiating ultrafast magnetization switching. These purely electrical ps magnetic switching mechanisms are suitable for on-chip integration with CMOS, opening up the possibility of ultrafast, embedded, high density nonvolatile magnetic memory, with greatly increased energy efficiency compared to existing SRAM.
About Jeffrey Bokor
Jeffrey Bokor is the Paul R. Gray Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, with a joint appointment as Senior Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. From 1980 to 1993, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he did research on a variety of topics in laser science, advanced lithography for integrated circuits, as well as semiconductor physics and technology, and held several management positions. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1993. His current research activities include nanomagnetics/spintronics, graphene electronics, nanophotonics, and nano-electromechanical systems. He is a fellow of IEEE, APS, and OSA.
