Faculty & Research

personnel profile

Shan Xiang Wang

 
Title:Professor
Department(s):Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Affiliation(s):Director, Center for Magnetic Nanotechnology; Director, Stanford Center for Research on Information Storage Materials (CRISM)
Location:Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
McCullough rm. 351
476 Lomita Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Mail Code:4045
Phone:650.723.8671       
Fax:650.736.1984
E-mail: sxwang@stanford.edu
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/wang_group/
http://www.stanford.edu/group/nanomag_center/
Administrator: Christina Konjevich

Research Statement

Wang is engaged in the research of magnetic nanotechnology, biosensors, spintronics, integrated inductors and information storage. He uses modern thin-film growth techniques and lithography to engineer new electromagnetic materials and devices and to study their behavior at nanoscale and at very high frequencies. His group is investigating magnetic nanoparticles, high saturation soft magnetic materials, giant magnetoresistance spin valves, magnetic tunnel junctions, and spin electronic materials, with applications in cancer nanotechnology, in vitro diagnostics, rapid radiation triage, spin-based information processing, efficient energy conversion and storage, and extremely high-density magnetic recording.

Research Interests:
Magnetic nanotechnology including bio-magnetic sensors, cancer nanotechnology, in vitro diagnostics, radiation triage, DNA forensics
Magnetic inductive heads, RF magnetic inductors, and soft magnetic materials
Magnetoresistive materials and spin electronics
Magnetic recording physics and information storage

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering 1993 Carnegie Mellon University

Academic Honors & Awards

IEEE Fellow, 2009.
Obducat Prize, 2008.
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Award, 2006.
IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2001.
IBM Partnership Award, 1999.
Inaugural Frederick Terman Faculty Fellow, 1994-97.
CUSPEA Program organized by Nobel Laureate T. D. Lee, 1986.