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Prof. A.Cebollada obtained his PhD Thesis by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1992, contributing to the understanding of the exciting phenomena of oscillatory magnetic coupling in magnetic superlattices1 that was relevant in magnetotransport properties such as the Giant Magnetoresistance effect.
Moved to the Almaden Research Center in San Jose (California) for a post doctoral stay (1992-1994), working on topics such as the efect that chemical order had in the magnetic anisotropy and the magneto-optical activity in FePt alloy thin films2 oscillatory GMR in permalloy/Au superlattices 3 and the orientation depencence of the MO activity in epitaxial Co films4.
Back to Spain in 1994, Prof. Cebollada joined the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid (IMM), contributing to the start up of the Magnetic Nanostructures research line at the Institute. Since then, his main research activities have been focused on:
- Structure-magnetism and magneto optics correlation in FePd binary alloys5.
- Influence of N incorporation on the structure, magnetic and magnetooptical properties of ultrathin epitaxial Fe/MgO(001) films6.
- Growth and magnetism of Fe/MgO/Fe heterostructures with applications in fully epitaxial magnetic tunnel junctions 7.
- Magnetization reversal and interactions in arrays of epitaxial micromagnets8.
- Size and matrix effects in the magnetism and magnetooptical properties of self-assembled nanomagnets9.
Recently, Prof. Cebollada spent one year at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (2005-2006), exploring the use of ultrafast laser deposition techniques for the fabrication of magnetic nanostructures10 and the epitaxy and optical and magnetooptical properties of noble metal-ferromagnetic structures with applications in magnetoplasmonics11.
Prof. Cebollada's scientific interest in general is focused on the structure-magnetism correlation in magnetic nanostructures, with active research in different areas listed before, and in particular in the incorporation of magnetic counterparts in structures with plasmonic activity to obtain and control novel Magnetoplasmonic systems12 with interesting fundamental properties and potential in sensing applications13.
Alfonso Cebollada is an expert in growth and epitaxy of metallic magnetic heterostructures using a wide variety of techniques, like triode and magnetron sputter deposition, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) or nanosecond and femtosecond pulsed laser deposition. He has also a wide experience in structural characterization using reciprocal space techniques such as Low-Energy and Reflection-High-Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED and RHEED), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-ray reflectometry (XRR).
He has published over 100 papers in international refereed journals, similar number of communications to international conferences and has been advisor and/or coadvisor in 3 PhD thesis works.
