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Alpha T. N’Diaye

Staff Scientist, Interim Program Lead
Dichroism, Photon Science Operations

Contact

atndiaye@lbl.govMailstop: 6R2100510-486-5926 (Office)
Location(s): 006-2226

Responsibilities

Magnetic Spectroscopy and User Program at Beamline 6.3.1

Chair of Quantum Materials Research Thrust Area at ALS

 

Biographical Information

Since 2014 Research Scientist, Advanced Light Source at at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
2010-2013  Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
2010 PhD in Physics RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Awards: Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the German Alexander von-Humbold Foundation

Nottingham Prize by the Physical Electronics Conference

Research Interests

Primary Research Interests:

  • Magnetic Spin Textures: Skyrmions and Chiral Domain Walls in Thin Films
  • Functional Molecular Spin-Materials and Spin Crossover Molecules
  • Magnetic Coupling at Interfaces and Nano-structures.

Broad collaborative activity from Complex Oxides to Earth and Environmental Science.

 

Selected Publications

See google scholar profile for full publication list.

Hao, G., Mosey, A., Jiang, X., Yost, A.J., Sapkota, K.R., Wang, G.T., Zhang, X., Zhang, J., N’Diaye, A.T., Cheng, R., Xu, X., Dowben, P.A., 2019. Nonvolatile voltage controlled molecular spin state switching. Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 032901. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5054909

Li, Q., Yang, M., Gong, C., Chopdekar, R.V., N’Diaye, A.T., Turner, J., Chen, G., Schol, A., Shafer, P., Arenholz, E., Schmid, A.K., Wang, S., Liu, K., Gao, N., Admasu, A.S., Cheong, S.-W., Hwang, C., Li, J., Wang, F., Zhang, X., Qiu, Z., 2018. Patterning-Induced Ferromagnetism of Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals Materials beyond Room Temperature. Nano Lett. 18, 5974–5980. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02806

Zhang, X., Costa, P.S., Hooper, J., Miller, D.P., N’Diaye, A.T., Beniwal, S., Jiang, X., Yin, Y., Rosa, P., Routaboul, L., Gonidec, M., Poggini, L., Braunstein, P., Doudin, B., Xu, X., Enders, A., Zurek, E., Dowben, P.A., 2017. Locking and Unlocking the Molecular Spin Crossover Transition. Adv. Mater. 29, 1702257. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702257

Chen, G., Mascaraque, A., N’Diaye, A.T., Schmid, A.K., 2015. Room temperature skyrmion ground state stabilized through interlayer exchange coupling. Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 242404. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4922726

Chen, G., Zhu, J., Quesada, A., Li, J., N’Diaye, A.T., Huo, Y., Ma, T.P., Chen, Y., Kwon, H.Y., Won, C., Qiu, Z.Q., Schmid, A.K., Wu, Y.Z., 2013. Novel Chiral Magnetic Domain Wall Structure in Fe/Ni/Cu(001) Films. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 177204. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.177204

N’Diaye, A.T., Gerber, T., Busse, C., Mysliveček, J., Coraux, J., Michely, T., 2009. A versatile fabrication method for cluster superlattices. New J. Phys. 11, 103045. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/11/10/103045