Leiner Receives NSF Fellowship to Study in Korea

 

Third-year graduate student Jonathan Leiner is working this summer in Korea with Sanhoon Lee, a professor at Korea University and longtime collaborator with researchers at the University of Notre Dame. Leiner wrote the proposal that won a fellowship for the National Science Foundation’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute.

“The project involves the interaction between magnetic quantum dots,” said Leiner’s adviser, Malgorzata Dobrowolska-Furdyna, a professor in the Department of Physics. The title of his proposal was a “Study of Magnetic Anisotropy and Domain Formation in Gallium Manganese Arsenide (GaMnAs)-based Hetero Structures.”

Leiner, who has studied Korean and went to a program orientation in Washington to prepare for the summer work, spent three weeks in a Notre Dame lab manufacturing samples of GaMnAs to take with him to Korea. He will study the material with Lee, who has developed a sophisticated experimental system. When he returns, he will work on analysis of the data he collects. “It’s a very good symbiosis,” Dobrowolska-Furdyna said.