Jagadeesh Moodera

Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera ( born December 3, 1950 in Bangalore ) is an Indian- American physicist who deals with solid-state physics.

Life and work

Moodera studied at the University of Mysore ( master's degree, 1973) and in 1978 received his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai in solid state physics. In 1979 he went to the USA to the West Virginia University to Mohinder Seehra. In 1981 he went to the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Robert Meservey, his successor as group leader he was at his retirement in the early 1990s. He was a visiting professor at the Technical University Eindhoven.

He deals with his group with magnetic and superconducting thin films and methods of nano- spintronics (magnetic tunneling between thin layers, spin injection into semiconductors, magnetic semiconductors ). In 1994, he was shortly after Terunobu Miyazaki a giant TMR effect (magnetic tunnel resistance, english Tunneling Magneto- Resistance) ..

Moodera is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award of IIT.

In 2009 he was awarded with Robert Meservey, Tedrow Paul (both also formerly at MIT ) and Oliver E. Buckley Terunobu Miyazaki the Condensed Matter Prize for their pioneering work in spintronics (spin -dependent tunneling ).

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