Samuel D. Bader

Professional experience

• Chief Scientist, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
• Associate Division Director, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2007-present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University , Evanston , IL .
• 2002-present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign.
• 2002-present: Senior Fellow, University of Chicago-Argonne Consortium for Nanoscience Research.
• Group Leader, Magnetic Films Group, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1977-present: Staff scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, specializing in surface, thin-film and nano-magnetism
• 1974-1977: Post Doctoral Appointee, Superconductivity Group, Argonne National Laboratory

Education

• Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley , 1974
• B.S., Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley , 1967

Selected awards

• U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Award for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Physics for work on coupled magnetic layers, 1992
• University of Chicago Award for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory, 1994
• John A. Thornton Memorial Award, American Vacuum Society, 2001; cited for "seminal contributions to the atomic-level understanding of surface and thin film magnetism."
• David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, American Physical Society, 2007; cited for "spirited lectures, writing and experimental research in the area of nanomagnetism, magnetic films, multilayers and surfaces of metallic systems, including championing the surface magneto-optic Kerr effect approach."
• Fellow, American Vacuum Society
• Fellow, American Physical Society
• ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Physics, 1981-1997

Selected professional activities

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
• Associate editor, Applied Physics Letters
• Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2003-2006.
• Member, Advisory Board of the National Science Foundation-sponsored National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
• U.S. representative and Secretary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Commission 10 on Structure and Dynamics in Condensed Matter
• Member, decadal study committee in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP 2010) of the National Research Council
• Chair, Division of Materials Physics, American Physical Society, 2004-2005
• Founding member, Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division, American Vacuum Society

Research interests

• Application of nanotechnology to create novel permanent magnets (spring magnets)
• To explore laterally confined nanomagnets
• Development of magnetic electronics
• Bio-inspired self-assembly of magnetic nanostructures
• Magnetic surfaces, films, wedges and superlattices, including hybrid structures, such as novel ferromagnetic-superconducting multilayers
• Giant magnetoresistance and exchange-coupled magnetic multilayers
• Colossal magnetoresistance in naturally layered manganites

Recent publications (from more than 300 in print)

• Colloquium: Opportunities in Nanomagnetism, S. D. Bader, Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 1-15 (2006)
• Advances in Nanomagnetism via X-ray Techniques (REVIEW), G. Srajer, L.H. Lewis, S.D. Bader, A. Epstein, C.S. Fadley, E.E. Fullerton, A. Hoffmann, J.B. Kortright, K.M. Krishnan, S.A. Majetich, T.S. Rahman, C.A. Ross, M.B. Salamon, I.K. Schuller, T.C. Schulthess, J. Z. Sun, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 307 , 1-31 (2006).
• Enhanced spin injection polarization in Co/Cu/Co non-local lateral spin valves, Y. Ji, A. Hoffmann, J. E. Pearson, and S. D. Bader, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 052509 (2006).
• Magnetic Viruses via Nano-Capsid Templates, Chinmei Liu, Seok-Hwan Chung, April Sutton, Funing Yan, Qiaoling Jin, Hoffmann, B. K. Kay, S. D. Bader, L. Makowski, Liaohai Chen, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 302, 47 (2006).
• Magnetic Vortex Core Dynamics in Cylindrical Ferromagnetic Dots, K. Yu Guslienko, X. F. Han, D. J. Keavney, R. Divan, and S. D. Bader, Phys, Rev. Lett. 96, 067205 (2006).
• Soliton-pair dynamics in patterned ferromagnetic ellipses, K. S. Buchanan, P. E. Roy, M. Grimsditch, F. Y. Fradin, K. Yu. Guslienko, S. D. Bader, and V. Novosad, Nature Physics. 1, 172 (2005)
• Magnetic Bi-stability of Co Nanodots, H. F. Ding, A. K. Schmid, Dongqi Li, K. Yu. Guslienko, and S. D. Bader, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157202 (2005).
• A Materials Chemistry Perspective on Nanomagnetism, S. B. Darling and S. D. Bader, J. Mater. Chem. 15, 4189 - 4195 (2005)
• Improving Exchange-Spring Nanocomposite Permanent Magnets, J. S. Jiang, J. E. Pearson, Z. Y. Liu, B. Kabius, S. Trasobares , D. J. Miller, S. D. Bader, D. R. Lee, D. Haskel, G. Srajer, and J. P. Liu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 5293 (2004).
• Nuclear Resonant Magnetometry for Depth-Selective Magnetization Studies of Thin Films and Multilayers, Caroline L'abbé, J. Meersschaut, W. Sturhahn, J. S. Jiang, T. S. Troellner, E. E. Alp, and S. D. Bader, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 037201 (2004).
• Heat Capacity of Naturally Layered SrO(La1-xSrxMnO3)2 Single Crystals, Jiyeong Y. Gu, S. D. Bader, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, and J. Gordon, Phys. Rev. B 70, 054418 (2004).
• Neutron Scattering Studies of Nanomagnetism and Artificially Structured Materials (REVIEW), M.R. Fitzsimmons, S.D. Bader, J.A. Borchers, G.P. Felcher, J.K. Furdyna, A. Hoffman, J. B. Kortright, I.K. Schuller, T.C. Schulthess, S.K. Sinha, M.F. Toney, D. Weller, S. Wolf, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 271, 103-146 (2004).