Maxim Tsoi
Maxim Tsoi is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. A graduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (B.S. 1993; M.S. 1995) and Konstanz University, Germany (Ph.D. 1998), Dr. Tsoi joined the UT faculty in 2003, after serving as a postdoctoral member of the technical staff at IBM Almaden Research Center, Michigan State University, and the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laborotory of Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. His research interests include conduction electron/interface interactions, spin-polarized transport in mesoscopic structures, nanomagnetism and spintronics. Dr. Tsoi is a pioneer of experimental studies of Spin-Transfer Torque (STT). He was the first to demonstrate STT phenomenon in experiments with magnetic multilayers [1]. His point-contact experiments with microwaves provided the first evidence of STT nano-oscillators [2]. His experiments with exchange-biased spin valves [3] gave the first evidence of STT in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials and can be taken as the first step towards all-AFM spintronics. Dr. Tsoi is a recipient of the “Ragnar Holm Plaquette” awarded by the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2002) and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006).
| 1. | M. Tsoi, A. G. M. Jansen, J. Bass, W.-C. Chiang, M. Seck, V. Tsoi, and P. Wyder, "Excitation of a magnetic multilayer by an electric current," Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4281-4284 (1998). |
| 2. | M. Tsoi, A. G. M. Jansen, J. Bass, W.-C. Chiang, V. Tsoi, and P. Wyder, "Generation and detection of phase-coherent current-driven magnons in magnetic multilayers," Nature 406, 46-48 (2000). |
| 3. | Z. Wei, A. Sharma, A. S. Nunez, P. M. Haney, R. A. Duine, J. Bass, A. H. MacDonald, and M. Tsoi, "Changing exchange bias in spin valves with an electric current," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 116603 (2007). |
| 4. | M. Tsoi, J. Z. Sun, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Current-driven excitations in symmetric magnetic nanopillars," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 036602 (2004). |
| 5. | G. S. D. Beach, C. Nistor, C. Knutson, M. Tsoi, and J. L. Erskine, "Dynamics of field-driven domain wall propagation in ferromagnetic nanowires," Nature Mater. 4, 741–744 (2005). |
| 6. | G. S. D. Beach, C. Knutson, C. Nistor, M. Tsoi, and J. L. Erskine, "Nonlinear domain-wall velocity enhancement by spin-polarized electric current," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 057203 (2006). |
| 7. | S. A. Yang, G. S. D. Beach, C. Knutson, D. Xiao, Q. Niu, M. Tsoi, and J. L. Erskine, "Universal electromotive force induced by domain wall motion," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067201 (2009). |
| 8. | A. H. MacDonald and M. Tsoi, "Antiferromagnetic metal spintronics," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 369, 3098-3114 (2011). |
| 9. | C. Wang, H. Seinige, G. Cao, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, and M. Tsoi, "Anisotropic magnetoresistance in antiferromagnetic Sr2IrO4", Phys. Rev. X 4, 041034 (2014). |
| 10 | C. Wang, H. Seinige, G. Cao, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, and M. Tsoi, "Electrically tunable transport in the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator Sr2IrO4", Phys. Rev. B 92, 115136 (2015). |
