Primary Job Title Professor of Physics Primary Organization New York University
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Andrew Kent is a Professor of Physics at New York University. He received his Ph. D. from Stanford University and conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Kent’s research interests are in the physics of magnetic nanostructures, nanomagnetic devices and magnetic information
storage. He has conducted experimental studies of quantum tunneling of magnetization and coherence in arrays of nanometer scale magnets known as single molecule magnets. He has also studied spin-dependent transport and spin momentum transfer in thin film magnetic nanopillars.
Kent has expertise in thin film growth and characterization, device nanofabrication and high frequency measurements, which includes, ferromagnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic resonance and time-resolved studies of magnetization dynamics.He has over 120 publications as well as several foundational patents on spin-transfer devices. Kent is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is also the Chair of GMAG, the American Physical Society’s topical group on magnetism and its applications. He founded Spin Transfer Technologies with the financial support of Allied Minds in December of 2007.