Kirill Belashchenko group Electronic structure, magnetism and spintronics theory Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Nebraska-Lincoln   310D Theodore Jorgensen Hall, 855 N. 16th St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0299 Phone: (402)472-2396, e-mail: belashchenko@unl.edu

Research Publications Group Jobs Quick links: Spin-orbit torque: Co/Pt, thickness dependence Magnetic materials: EuO, Fe8N2, Cr2O3, Fe2TeO6, NiMnSb, Fe1-xMnxPt. Magnetic anisotropy in alloys: [1], [2], [3]. Ferropnictides: [1], [2], [3]. Phase transitions: Cr2O3 (0001) surface, Gd:EuO. Magnetoelectrics: EB control, boundary, imaging. switching. Spin fluctuations and resistivity: LSF, Fe & Ni, Gd-Tm, DLM, saturation. Spintronics: TAMR, Fe/GaAs, spin injection, spin loss. Tunnel junctions: Co/vacuum, Co/Al2O3, Fe/MgO, Co/SrTiO3, review. Alloys: CLDM, Fe-Au.

News and updates 8/7/19: Interfacial contributions to spin-orbit torque and magnetoresistance in ferromagnet/heavy-metal bilayers 7/17/19: Questaal: a package of electronic structure methods based on the linear muffin-tin orbital technique 12/12/18: Influence of strain and chemical substitution on the magnetic anisotropy of Cr2O3 10/26/18: First-principles calculation of spin-orbit torque in a Co/Pt bilayer 10/19/18: Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in bulk and thin-film CuMnAs for antiferromagnetic memory applications 4/30/18: Origin of spin reorientation transitions in antiferromagnetic MnPt-based alloys Highlights Proximitized Materials in Materials Today Theory of spin loss at metallic interfaces (invited talk at the APS March Meeting, see also this paper) Effects of thermal spin fluctuations on the electronic properties of itinerant magnets (talk at SPICE-Workshop on Computational Quantum Magnetism, Mainz, May 2015) Exotic behavior of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in (Fe1-xCox)2B (PRL 2015, APL 2015) and Mn1-xPt1+x (PRM 2018) alloys Construction of magnetic phase diagrams in alloys from first principles (PRL 2015) Effects of thermal spin disorder and excess Mn on the half-metallic gap in NiMnSb (PRB Rapid Comm 2015) Microscopic, first-principles model of strain-induced interaction in concentrated size-mismatched alloys (PRB 2014) Biquadratic interaction in ferropnictides (Nature Physics 2011) Imaging and control of surface magnetization domains in a magnetoelectric antiferromagnet (PRL 2011) Robust isothermal electric control of exchange bias at room temperature (Nature Materials 2010, PRL 2010) Current research projects First-principles studies of relativistic spin interactions and torques NSF MRSEC: Polarization and Spin Phenomena in Nanoferroic Structures (P-SPINS)