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Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Physics, UC Davis
Writing textbook for graduate students on the topic of experimental and theoretical methods for calculating properties of Silicon-based spintronic devices.
Development of methods for calculating thermodynamic and transport properties of spintronic devices using two-time Green's functions and the random-phase approximation.
Analysis of novel Li/Be-based half-metallic materials and their feasibility in device applcations. Examination of the half-metallic robustness with respect to vibrational instabilities, spin-orbit interactions, substrate choice and surface reconstruction.
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Graduate Student Researcher Department of Physics, UC Davis
Development of parallel algorithms, within the many-body Green’s function with dynamic screened Coulomb interaction (GW) method, in relation to the physical properties of half-metallic materials.
Design of novel magnetic materials, with large magnetic moments, including half-Heusler alloys and Si doped with transition metal elements.
Associate Instructor Department of Physics, UC Davis
Lecturer for calculus-based physics courses. Generated assignments, quizzes and exams for students. Over 200 students per quarter.
Lead laboratory instructor.
Teaching Assistant Department of Physics, UC Davis
Assistant Public Relations Officer Graduate Student Association, UC Davis
Ph. D., Physics The University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Thesis title: Theoretical Models of Spintronic Materials
Supervisor: C. Y. Fong
B. S., Physics California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Minor: Mathematics
Spintronic properties of Li1.5Mn0.5Z (Z=As, Sb) compounds in the Cu2Sb structure L. Damewood, C. Y. Fong, B. M. Klein, L. H. Yang and C. Felser, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 377, 411.
Structural and electronic properties of half-Heusler alloys PtXBi (with X=Mn, Fe, Co and Ni) calculated from first principles W. Huang, X. Wang, X. Chen, W. Lu, L. Damewood and C. Y. Fong, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 377, 252.
Structuaral variants and the modified Slater-Pauling curve for transition-metal-based half-Heusler alloys M. Shaughnessy, L. Damewood, C. Y. Fong, L. H. Yang, and C. Felser, Journal of Applied Physics 113, 043709.
Half-metallic Hole-doped Mn/Si Trilayers L. H. Yang, M. Shaughnessy, L. Damewood, C. Y. Fong, and K. Liu, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 46, 165502.
Theory, Experiment and Computation of Half Metals for Spintronics: Recent Progress in Si-based Materials C. Y. Fong, M. Shaughnessy, L. Damewood, L. H. Yang, Nanoscale Systems MMTA 2012 0001.
Memory and Spin Injection Devices Involving Half Metals M. Shaughnessy, R. Snow, L. Damewood, and C. Y. Fong, Journal of Nanomaterials 2011, 140805.
Experienced numerical algorithm and machine learning developer.
Experienced in Python, Haskell, Scala, and various other programming and scripting languages.
Distributed programming in Python, C and Fortran using Spark, OpenMP and MPI.
Ab initio calculation of electronic and magnetic structures using ABINIT, VASP, and ELK software packages.