Mihaela Tanase

Mihaela Tanase is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Nanofabrication Research Group, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics of the University of Maryland.  She received a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics and Technology from the University of Bucharest, Romania.  She also received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied phase transformations in FePt nanoparticles, and developed a method for producing highly anisotropic self-assembled nanoparticles. After completing postdoctoral work at Argonne National Laboratory investigating the magnetization behavior of vortex-supporting lithographically patterned magnetic heterostructures, she joined the University of Illinois at Chicago as a visiting Assistant Professor and studied strain-induced ferromagnetism in lanthanum cobaltate at low temperatures.  Mihaela joined the CNST in 2010, and in collaboration with Renu Sharma is developing a novel platform for nanoscale metrology in situ in a transmission electron microscope, which will be used to observe lithium insertion and extraction in materials under development for next generation high power Li-ion batteries.  

• Magnetization Reversal in Circularly Exchange Biased Ferromagnetic Disks, M. Tanase, A. K. Petford-Long, O. Heinonen, K. S. Buchanan, J. Sort, and J. Nogués, Physical Review B 79,  014436 (2009).
• In-Situ TEM Observation of Magnetic Materials, M. Tanase and A. K. Petford-Long, Microscopy Research and Technique 72, 187-196 (2009).
• Simultaneous Determination of Vortex Polarity and Chirality from Single Fresnel Images, C. Phatak, M. Tanase, A. K. Petford-Long, and M. De Graef, Ultramicroscopy 109, 264-267 (2009).
• Structure Optimization of FePt Nanoparticles of Various Sizes for Magnetic Data Storage, M. Tanase, J.–G. Zhu, C. Liu, N. Shukla, T. J. Klemmer, D. Weller, and D. E. Laughlin, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions 38, 798-810, (2007).
• Crystallographic Ordering Studies of FePt Nanoparticles by High-Resolution Electron Microscopy, M. Tanase, N. T. Nuhfer, D. E. Laughlin, T. J. Klemmer, C. Liu, N. Shukla, X. Wu, and D. Weller, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 266, 215-226 (2003).