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Overview

James A. Bain is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers various main topics including:

  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices
  • Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Near-Field Optical Microscopy
  • Phase-change materials and chalcogenides

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bain include:

  • Liting Shen
  • Marek Skowroński
  • Yuanzhi Ma
  • Phoebe Yeoh
  • Jonathan M. Goodwill

The scientist publishes regularly in a range of journals. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • AIP Advances
  • IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
  • Optics Express
  • ACS Applied Electronic Materials

Selected recent papers by James A. Bain include:

  • "Evolution of the conductive filament with cycling in TaOx-based resistive switching devices," 2020, Journal of Applied Physics
  • "Measured optical losses of Sc doped AlN waveguides," 2024, Optics Express
  • "Electrical and Thermal Dynamics of Self-Oscillations in TaOx-Based Threshold Switching Devices," 2020, ACS Applied Electronic Materials
  • "Adapting the RACER Architecture to Integrate Improved In-ReRAM Logic Primitives," 2022, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
  • "Simulation of a Thermally Efficient Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Ridge Waveguide NFT on an AlN Heat Sink," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Best Publications

  • The effect of external magnetic field on mark size in heat-assisted probe recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers

    Li Zhang;James A. Bain;Jian-Gang Zhu;Leon Abelmann

  • Stress Determination in Textured Thin Films Using X-Ray Diffraction

    B.M. Clemens;J.A. Bain

  • Single-chip computers with microelectromechanical systems-based magnetic memory (invited)

    L. Richard Carley;James A. Bain;Gary K. Fedder;David W. Greve

  • Influence of stress and texture on soft magnetic properties of thin films

    Pei Zou;W. Yu;J.A. Bain

  • Joule Heating-Induced Metal-Insulator Transition in Epitaxial VO2/TiO2 Devices.

    Dasheng Li;Abhishek A. Sharma;Darshil K. Gala;Nikhil Shukla

  • Mobility of oxygen vacancy in SrTiO3 and its implications for oxygen-migration-based resistance switching

    W. Jiang;M. Noman;Y. M. Lu;J. A. Bain

  • Acousto-optical modulation of thin film lithium niobate waveguide devices

    Lutong Cai;Ashraf Mahmoud;Msi Khan;Mohamed Mahmoud

  • Imaging of quantized magnetostatic modes using spatially resolved ferromagnetic resonance

    S. Tamaru;J. A. Bain;R. J. M. van de Veerdonk;T. M. Crawford

  • Oxygen Vacancy Creation, Drift, and Aggregation in TiO2-Based Resistive Switches at Low Temperature and Voltage

    Jonghan Kwon;Abhishek A. Sharma;James A. Bain;Yoosuf N. Picard

  • Imaging of optical field confinement in ridge waveguides fabricated on very-small-aperture laser

    Fang Chen;A. Itagi;J. A. Bain;D. D. Stancil

  • Elastic strains and coherency stresses in Mo/Ni multilayers.

    Bain Ja;Chyung Lj;Brennan S;Clemens Bm

  • Electronic Instabilities Leading to Electroformation of Binary Metal Oxide‐based Resistive Switches

    Abhishek A. Sharma;Mohammad Noman;Mohamed Abdelmoula;Marek Skowronski

  • Oscillatory Neural Networks Based on TMO Nano-Oscillators and Multi-Level RRAM Cells

    Thomas C. Jackson;Abhishek A. Sharma;James A. Bain;Jeffrey A. Weldon

  • Phase Coupling and Control of Oxide-Based Oscillators for Neuromorphic Computing

    Abhishek A. Sharma;James A. Bain;Jeffrey A. Weldon

  • Device with waveguide defined by dielectric in aperture of cross-track portion of electrical conductor for writing data to a recording medium

    Daniel D. Stancil;Amit Itagi;Tuviah E. Schlesinger;James A. Bain

  • Application of Image Processing to Characterize Patterning Noise in Self-Assembled Nano-Masks for Bit-Patterned Media

    S. Nabavi;B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar;J.A. Bain;C. Hogg

  • Design Criteria in Sizing Phase-Change RF Switches

    Gregory Slovin;Min Xu;Rahul Singh;T. E. Schlesinger

  • Spontaneous current constriction in threshold switching devices

    Jonathan M. Goodwill;Jonathan M. Goodwill;Georg Ramer;Dasheng Li;Dasheng Li;Brian D. Hoskins

  • Low resistance, high dynamic range reconfigurable phase change switch for radio frequency applications

    E. K. Chua;L. P. Shi;R. Zhao;K. G. Lim

  • Enhancement of Thermal Conductance at Metal-Dielectric Interfaces Using Subnanometer Metal Adhesion Layers

    Minyoung Jeong;Justin P. Freedman;Hongliang Joe Liang;Cheng-Ming Chow

  • High Frequency Initial Permeability Of NiFe and FeAIN

    W.P. Jayasekara;J.A. Bain;M.H. Kryder

  • Ridge waveguide as a near-field optical source

    A. V. Itagi;D. D. Stancil;J. A. Bain;T. E. Schlesinger

  • Computational investigations into the operating window for memristive devices based on homogeneous ionic motion

    Mohammad Noman;Wenkan Jiang;Paul A. Salvador;Marek Skowronski

  • AlN Barriers for Capacitance Reduction in Phase-Change RF Switches

    Gregory Slovin;Min Xu;Jeyanandh Paramesh;T. E. Schlesinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Marek Skowronski
Marek Skowronski Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel D. Stancil
Daniel D. Stancil North Carolina State University
David E. Laughlin
David E. Laughlin Carnegie Mellon University
Gary K. Fedder
Gary K. Fedder Carnegie Mellon University
Bruce M. Clemens
Bruce M. Clemens Stanford University
Paul A. Salvador
Paul A. Salvador Carnegie Mellon University
Gianluca Piazza
Gianluca Piazza Carnegie Mellon University
William C. Messner
William C. Messner Tufts University
Luping Shi
Luping Shi Tsinghua University
Sara A. Majetich
Sara A. Majetich Carnegie Mellon University

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