Chris Leighton
Chris Leighton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Christopher Leighton |
| Alma mater | Durham University (BSc, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Material physics |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | Persistent photoconductivity and the metal-insulator transition in Cd(_1-x)Mn(_x)Te:In (1998) |
Christopher Leighton is a British physicist. He is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota.[1]
Leighton holds a BSc in Physics (1994) and a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics (1998) from Durham University.[1][2] From 1998 to 2001, he was a postdoc in material physics at the University of California, San Diego.[1]
Leighton was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012 and an IEEE Fellow in 2020.[3][1] His research revolves around the electronic and magnetic properties of a wide range of novel materials, including complex oxides, oxide heterostructures, metallic spintronics, complex alloys, organic conductors, and photovoltaics.[4]
Selected publications
[edit]- Leighton, Chris; Nogués, Josep; Jönsson-Åkerman, B. J.; Schuller, Ivan K. (2000). "Coercivity enhancement in exchange biased systems driven by interfacial magnetic frustration". Physical Review Letters. 84 (15): 3466–3469. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3466.
- Wu, Jiansheng; Leighton, Chris (2003). "Glassy ferromagnetism and magnetic phase separation in La₁₋ₓSrₓCoO₃". Physical Review B. 67 (17): 174408. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.67.174408.
- Lee, Sangwoo; Leighton, Chris; Bates, Frank S. (2014). "Sphericity and symmetry breaking in the formation of Frank–Kasper phases from one-component materials". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (50): 17723–17731. doi:10.1073/pnas.1408678111.
- Leighton, Chris (2019). "Electrolyte-based ionic control of functional oxides". Nature Materials. 18: 13–18. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.67.174408.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Chris Leighton". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ Leighton, Christopher (1998). Persistent photoconductivity and the metal-insulator transition in Cd(_1-x)Mn(_x)Te:In (PDF) (PhD thesis). Durham University. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ "GMAG Sponsored APS Fellows" (PDF). GMAG Newsletter (39): 1. March 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ Meystre, Pierre (2017). "Editorial: Welcoming Chris Leighton to Physical Review Materials". Physical Review Materials. 1 (1): 010001. doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.010001.
External links
[edit]- Chris Leighton publications indexed by Google Scholar