Padraic Shafer
Research Scientist
Scientific Support Group
Contact
pshafer@lbl.govMailstop: 6R2100510-486-7102Location(s): 006-2224
Biographical Information
Education
| Ph. D., Materials Science and Engineering | University of California, Berkeley, CA | 2009 |
| M. S., Materials Science and Engineering | University of California, Berkeley, CA | 2006 |
| B. S., Materials Science and Engineering, with Highest Honors | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL | 1999 |
Professional Experience
2012 – Present
Research Scientist
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
2009 – 2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
2004 – 2009
Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Materials Science and Engineering – NSF Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2002 – 2004
Process Integration Engineer
Logic & Embedded-RAM Alliance for Development, IBM Microelectronics, East Fishkill, NY
1999 – 2002
Process Development Engineer
DRAM Development Alliance, IBM Microelectronics, East Fishkill, NY
Research Interests
Padraic studies electronic order at domain walls and thin film interfaces in complex oxides and magnetic metals using a combination of resonant soft x-ray absorption and scattering. He also investigates spin-pumped dynamics in magnetic multilayers using x-ray based ferromagnetic resonance.
Selected Publications
J. He*, P. Shafer*, T. R. Mion*, V. T. Tra, Q. He, J. T. Kong, Y.-D. Chuang, W. L. Yang, M. J. Graf, J.-Y. Lin, Y.-H. Chu, E. Arenholz, and R.-H. He, Observation of a three-dimensional quasi-long-range electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7−x/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 heterostructures, Nat. Commun. 7, 10852 (2016). [doi: 10.1038/ncomms10852]
A. K. Yadav, C. T. Nelson, S.-L. Hsu, Z. Hong, J. Clarkson, C. Schleputz, A. Damodaran, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, L. R. Dedon, A. Vishwanath, A. M. Minor, L.-Q. Chen, J. F. Scott, L. W. Martin, and R. Ramesh, Observation of Polar Vortices in Oxide Superlattices, Nature 530, 198 (2016). [doi: 10.1038/nature16463]
J. Li, L. R. Shelford, P. Shafer, A. Tan, J. X. Deng, P. S. Keatley, C. Hwang, E. Arenholz, G. van der Laan, R. J. Hicken, and Z. Q. Qiu, Direct detection of pure spin-current by x-ray pump-probe measurements, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076602 (2016). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.076602]
Y. Cao, X. Liu, P. Shafer, S. Middey, D. Meyers, M. Kareev, Z. Zhong, J.W. Kim, P. J. Ryan, E. Arenholz, and J. Chakhalian, Anomalous orbital structure in a spinel–perovskite interface, npj Quantum Materials 1, 16009 (2016). [doi: 10.1038/npjquantmats.2016.9]