A Message from the Director, Jian-Ping Wang
Welcome, everyone to the C-SPIN Quarterly Newsletter. Special thanks to STARnet program directors, SAB members, and C-SPIN industry associates for their efforts at the 3rd Annual Review to provide feedback on what C-SPIN has done and how C-SPIN can improve. Thanks also to all C-SPIN PIs, students, and postdoctoral fellows for their efforts at the Review.
My attendance at SONIC and LEAST’s Annual Reviews was very fruitful. I would like to thank Prof. Naresh Shanbhag and his colleagues at SONIC and Prof. Alan Seabaugh and his colleagues from LEAST for hosting me. SONIC has done a great job pushing brain-inspired and Shannon-inspired computing schemes further, and LEAST center has generated a lot of exciting new devices. We did see many good collaboration opportunities between C-SPIN and these two centers. More discussion is underway, so stay tuned.
I would like to give a big congratulations to Prof. Chris Palmstrøm for being named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF). Prof. Palmstrøm is one of only seven distinguished faculty scientists and engineers, to be named by the Department of Defense (DoD) for his pioneering effort on the growths of semiconductor materials.
Last but not least, I appreciate the timely response by our PIs to push forward on some new spin device concepts in past quarter, including a C-SPIN invention, the spin switch.
Thanks to Mike Lotti for his efforts to put the Newsletter together. It contains a good interview with Prof. Supriyo Datta, who is a world-leading figure on proposing and modeling different kinds of spintronics devices.
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