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Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Jagadeesh S. Moodera

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Materials Science

D-Index
75
Citations
30025
World Ranking
3390
National Ranking
944

Physics

D-Index
80
Citations
31419
World Ranking
2985
National Ranking
1453

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society For pioneering work in the field of spin-dependent tunneling and for the application of these phenomena to the field of magnetoelectronics.
  • 2000 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering and sustained contributions to the understanding of spinpolarized transport in solids, and for inspiring mentorship of students at all levels

Overview

Jagadeesh S. Moodera is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their primary fields of study include Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Materials Science. Within these areas, their subfields of specialization cover Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their research topics emphasize several key areas:

  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Magnetic properties of thin films
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Graphene research and applications

Frequently publishing in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters, and Nature Materials, Moodera's work has appeared multiple times across these respected platforms.

The scientist's recent papers illustrate a broad scope of study and include titles such as:

  • "Extra storage capacity in transition metal oxide lithium-ion batteries revealed by in situ magnetometry" (2020, Nature Materials)
  • "Ubiquitous Superconducting Diode Effect in Superconductor Thin Films" (2023, Physical Review Letters)
  • "Signature of a pair of Majorana zero modes in superconducting gold surface states" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "A Van der Waals Interface Hosting Two Groups of Magnetic Skyrmions" (2022, Advanced Materials)
  • "Modulation Doping via a Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystalline Acceptor" (2020, Nano Letters)

Collaboration has been an aspect of their scientific career, with frequent co-authors including Hang Chi, Yasen Hou, Yunbo Ou, Valeria Lauter, and Akashdeep Kamra.

Moodera has received recognition in the form of awards such as the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize from the American Physical Society in 2009 for work related to spin-dependent tunneling and magnetoelectronics. Additionally, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000 for contributions to the understanding of spin-polarized transport in solids and for mentorship.

Best Publications

  • Large magnetoresistance at room temperature in ferromagnetic thin film tunnel junctions.

    J. S. Moodera;Lisa R. Kinder;Terrilyn M. Wong;R. Meservey

  • Measuring the Spin Polarization of a Metal with a Superconducting Point Contact

    R. J. Soulen;J. M. Byers;M. S. Osofsky;B. Nadgorny

  • Femtosecond room-temperature measurement of the electron-phonon coupling constant gamma in metallic superconductors

    S. D. Brorson;A. Kazeroonian;J. S. Moodera;D. W. Face

  • Half Metallic Magnets

    Warren E. Pickett;Jagadeesh S. Moodera

  • High-precision realization of robust quantum anomalous Hall state in a hard ferromagnetic topological insulator

    Cui Zu Chang;Weiwei Zhao;Duk Y. Kim;Haijun Zhang

  • Spin polarized tunneling in ferromagnetic junctions

    Jagadeesh S. Moodera;George Mathon

  • Extra storage capacity in transition metal oxide lithium-ion batteries revealed by in situ magnetometry.

    Qiang Li;Qiang Li;Hongsen Li;Hongsen Li;Qingtao Xia;Zhengqiang Hu

  • Interface Magnetism and Spin Wave Scattering in Ferromagnet-Insulator-Ferromagnet Tunnel Junctions

    Jagadeesh S. Moodera;Janusz Nowak;Rene J. M. van de Veerdonk

  • Interface-engineered templates for molecular spin memory devices

    Karthik V. Raman;Karthik V. Raman;Alexander M. Kamerbeek;Alexander M. Kamerbeek;Arup Mukherjee;Nicolae Atodiresei

  • Carrier-controlled ferromagnetism in transparent oxide semiconductors

    J. Philip;A. Punnoose;B. I. Kim;K. M. Reddy

  • Temperature dependence of magnetoresistance and surface magnetization in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions

    Chang He Shang;Janusz Nowak;Ronnie Jansen;Jagadeesh S. Moodera

  • A high-temperature ferromagnetic topological insulating phase by proximity coupling

    Ferhat Katmis;Valeria Lauter;Flavio S. Nogueira;Badih A. Assaf;Badih A. Assaf

  • Room-temperature tunnel magnetoresistance and spin-polarized tunneling through an organic semiconductor barrier.

    T. S. Santos;J. S. Lee;J. S. Lee;P. Migdal;I. C. Lekshmi

  • Ferromagnetic-insulator-ferromagnetic tunneling: Spin-dependent tunneling and large magnetoresistance in trilayer junctions (invited)

    Jagadeesh S. Moodera;Lisa R. Kinder

  • Electron-spin polarization in tunnel junctions in zero applied field with ferromagnetic EuS barriers.

    J. S. Moodera;X. Hao;G. A. Gibson;R. Meservey

  • Exchange-coupling-induced symmetry breaking in topological insulators.

    Peng Wei;Ferhat Katmis;Badih A. Assaf;Hadar Steinberg

  • Electrically tunable surface-to-bulk coherent coupling in topological insulator thin films

    H. Steinberg;J.-B. Laloë;V. Fatemi;J. S. Moodera

  • Spin-filtered edge states with an electrically tunable gap in a two-dimensional topological crystalline insulator

    Junwei Liu;Junwei Liu;Timothy H. Hsieh;Peng Wei;Wenhui Duan

  • The phenomena of spin-filter tunnelling

    Jagadeesh S Moodera;Tiffany S Santos;Taro Nagahama;Taro Nagahama

  • Seebeck effect in magnetic tunnel junctions

    Marvin Walter;Jakob Walowski;Vladyslav Zbarsky;Markus Münzenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Moses H. W. Chan
Moses H. W. Chan Pennsylvania State University
Biswarup Satpati
Biswarup Satpati Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Can-Li Song
Can-Li Song Tsinghua University
John Philip
John Philip Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
Yimei Zhu
Yimei Zhu Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jing Shi
Jing Shi University of California, Riverside
Amir Yacoby
Amir Yacoby Harvard University
Lijun Wu
Lijun Wu Brookhaven National Laboratory

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