Professor Judy is a founder and the first Director of The Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technology (MINT) of the University
of Minnesota. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of magnetic storage technology.
Scientific interests of
Prof. Judy are focused on deposition, characterization, and application of multilayer thin film materials for magnetic information
storage technologies. He has made many significant contributions in the field of thin film media for longitudinal and perpendicular
magnetic recording. In particular, his contributions are associated with the fabrication, microstructure and micromagnetic characterization,
and recording performance evaluation of high-coercivity magnetic thin film media for high-density magnetic recording, and soft magnetic
films for magnetic recording heads and memories
Advisors
SPINGATE Technology
The Advisory Board of Spingate Technology includes well recognized experts in the magnetic storage and semiconductor industries.
Professor Jack H. Judy
MINT, University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
Associate Professor Chris Leighton
Chris Leighton is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota,
with a Graduate Faculty appointment in the Department of Physics. Following B.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Physics at the University ofDurham in the UK and a post-doc in Materials Physics at UC San Diego, Chris joined the University of Minnesota in 2001. His group
works on a wide variety of problems in fundamental and applied magnetism including complex oxide magnetism, perovskites oxide heterostructures,
half-metallic ferromagnetism, spin transport in metals, and magnetic nanostructures. These studies combine a variety of growth and
synthesis methods with detailed structural characterization, magnetic, transport, and neutron scattering methods. Chris holds an endowed
chair at the University of Minnesota and is currently a McKnight Presidential Fellow.
Gateway to Nonvolatile Electronics
Functionality & Simplicity
Jian-Ping Wang is a Professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Minnesota and the associate director of the Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies (MINT) at University of Minnesota. He is also a graduate faculty member of Physics Department and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department at University of Minnesota. His current research programs focus on searching, fabricating and fundamentally understanding new nanomagnetic and spintronic materials and devices.
Prof. Wang established and managed the Magnetic Media and Materials program at the Data Storage Institute, Singapore, as the founding program manager, from 1998 to 2002. He was an adjunct graduate faculty member at National University of Singapore from 1996 to 2002. He received the INSIC technical award in 2006 for his pioneering work in exchange coupled composite magnetic media. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed top journals and conferences and holds 12 patents.
Professor Jian-Ping Wang
University of Minnesota