RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: A19B-T007
RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $171,463
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- A19B-T007
- Solicitation
- 19.B
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2019-12-19 → 2020-06-19
Description
Planar heterojunction comprised of topological insulator and magnetic insulator layers provide a unique opportunity to develop highly energy efficient electronics. The key challenge for the heterojunction is to fabricate a clean and abrupt interface between the two layers for efficient magnetic coupling. The growth of the magnetic materials should ideally be a low-temperature process in order to preserve the pristine surface conditions of the topological insulator. We propose to explore layer-by-layer deposition of magnetic material at temperature below 300 C on topological insulators. The fabricated heterojunctions shall be evaluated to confirm the magnetic order of the magnetic material by variable-temperature hall measurements.