Burkard Hillebrands

Burkard Hillebrands

Burkard Hillebrands 2010
Nationality German
Fields Physics, Magnetism
Institutions University of Cologne
University of Arizona
RWTH Aachen University
University of Karlsruhe
University of Kaiserslautern
Known for Spintronics
Magnetization dynamics
Solid-state physics
Materials science
Notable awards Fellow Institute of Physics (2004)
APS Fellow (2010)
IEEE Fellow (2010)
Member Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (2010)

Burkard Hillebrands, Prof. Dr. (* 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics. He is the leader of the magnetism research group at the Department of Physics.[1]

Academic career

Burkard Hillebrands was born in 1957. He studied physics at the University of Cologne (1977–1982) and was awarded his PhD in 1986 at the University of Cologne working with Prof. Gernot Güntherodt.

After a postdoctoral stay at the Optical Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona he received his habilitation from the RWTH Aachen in 1993. He was employed as an associate professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. In 1995 he accepted a full professor position at the University of Kaiserslautern. Between 2006 and 2014, he served as the Vice President for Research, Technology and Innovation of the University of Kaiserslautern.

He serves as chairperson or vice-chairperson in various coordinated initiatives of the German Science Foundation and the European Community, such as the German priority programme “Ultrafast Magnetization Processes” (2002–2008, coordinator), the EU research training networks "Ultrafast Magnetization Processes in Advanced Devices (ULTRASWITCH)” (2002–2006), „Spin Current Induced Ultrafast Switching (SPINSWITCH)” (2004–2010, coordinator)“, the Japanese-German research unit “ASPIMATT: Advanced Spintronic Materials and Transport Phenomena” (since 2010, vice-coordinator), and the transregional collaborative research center “Condensed Matters Systems with Variable Many-Body Interactions (SFB/TRR 49)” (since 2007, vice-coordinator). He is a member of the State Research Center for Optics and Material Sciences (OPTIMAS) and fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP).

Awards and Honours

Research

Burkard Hillebrands' research field is mostly in magneto-electronics. His special interests are in spin dynamics, material properties of thin magnetic films and multilayers. In the field of spin dynamics he is particularly interested in dynamic magnetic excitations in confined magnetic structures, linear and nonlinear spin wave propagation phenomena, magnon gases, magnonic crystals and magnetic switching. His particular technical interest is in the development of space-, time- and phase resolved Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and time resolved Kerr Effect techniques.

Publications

Hillebrands has published more than 380 articles in peer-reviewed international scientific journals,[5] five patents and patent applications,[6][7] seven book contributions, and he is co-editor of the Springer TAP book series on “Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures”.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Magnetism Group of University Kaiserslautern
  2. ↑ Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers for 2005 Dynamics in magnetic micro- and nanostructures
  3. ↑ Hillebrands officially nominated as APS Fellow
  4. ↑ (), in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from June 28. 2010
  5. ↑ Hillebrands publications at Researcher ID
  6. ↑ US 2004/0023064 A1 Wheatstone bridge containing bridge elements, consisting of a spin-valve system and a method for producing the same
  7. ↑ US 2004/6674662 B1 Magnetoresistive random access memory and method for reading writing digital information to such a memory
  8. ↑ with Andre Thiaville: Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures I, Springer, Berlin, ISBN 3-540-20108-4
  9. ↑ with Kamel Ounadjela: Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures II, Springer, Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-540-44084-4

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