Maxim Tsoi

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).