Mark Tuominen
Professor, Dept. of Physics, and Co-Director MassNanoTech
402 Hasbrouck, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9292
(413) 545-1944
tuominen@physics.umass.edu
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tuominen/
Advanced nanofabrication, nanoscale device physics
Research in the fabrication and physics of nanoscale devices and materials. This includes in new techniques for fabricating functional nanoscale devices using block copolymer templates in combination with conventional lithographic patterning, etching, and deposition methods. Application-oriented research involves terabit-density magnetic arrays, magnetotransport devices, energy conversion devices, nanoscale optics, electrochemical sensor arrays, and thermoelectric cooling elements. Ongoing work also includes charge transport physics in a variety of nanoscale systems.
| Research Interest | Potential Application |
|---|---|
| Block copolymers for nanofabrication | Magnetic data storage, energy conversion and storage devices, optical devices, thermoelectric cooling, electrochemical sensors |
| Nanomagnetism | Magnetic data storage, energy conversion and storage devices, optical devices, thermoelectric cooling, electrochemical sensors |
| Nanoscale electrodeposition and electrochemistry | Magnetic data storage, energy conversion and storage devices, optical devices, thermoelectric cooling, electrochemical sensors |
| Nanoscale charge transport physics | Magnetic data storage, energy conversion and storage devices, optical devices, thermoelectric cooling, electrochemical sensors |
| Electron beam lithography | Magnetic data storage, energy conversion and storage devices, optical devices, thermoelectric cooling, electrochemical sensors |
Honors and Awards
- Academic organizer of National Science Foundation's annual Nanoscale Science and Engineering grantee conferences and research website ( http://www.nseresearch.org ), 2002-2004
- Nanomagnetism Symposium Organizer, Materials Research Society, Spring, 2003
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2003
Publications
- "Ultrahigh-Density Nanowire Arrays Grown in Self-Assembled Diblock Copolymer Templates," T. Thurn-Albrecht, J. Schotter, G.A. Kästle, N. Emley, T.Shibauchi, L.Krusin-Elbaum, K.Guarini, and C.T.Black, M. Tuominen, and T.P. Russell, Science 290, 2126 (2000).
- " Pulse electrodeposition and EQCM techniques for high magnetic anisotropy cobalt nanowire arrays," A. Ursache, J. Goldbach, T.P. Russell, and M.T. Tuominen, Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Nov. 2004.
- "Nanofabrication Of Integrated Magnetoelectronic Devices Using Patterned Self-Assembled Copolymer Templates," M. Bal, A. Ursache, J. Goldbach, T.P. Russell, and M.T. Tuominen, Applied Physics Letters 81, 3479 (2002).
- “Incoherent dynamics of vibrating single-molecule transistors,” K.D. McCarthy, N. Prokof'ev, and M.T. Tuominen, Phys. Rev B 67, 245415 (2003).
- "Integration of Self-Assembled Block Copolymers for Semiconductor Capacitors," C. T. Black, K. W. Guarini, K. R. Milkove, S. M. Baker, M. T. Tuominen, and T. P. Russell, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 409 (2001).
