Jagadeesh Moodera, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetJagadeesh Moodera
American physicist
Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1950
Place of Birth: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Profession: physicist, university teacher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Jagadeesh Moodera
- Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera is an American physicist of Indian origin and is senior research scientist at MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory.
- In 1994 together with the MIT research team led by P.M.
- Tedrow and R.
- Meservey, they showed a practical way to implement room temperature magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) using a magnetic stack based on CoFe–Al2O3–Co, demonstrating a tunnel magnetoresistance ratio (TMR) of 11.8%. Low temperature magnetoresistive tunneling had been discovered by Michel Julliere in 1975 but it would be more than a decade before a room temp system was found.
- In 1991, Terunobu Miyazaki and others at Tohoku University had demonstrated a MTJ with room temp TMR of 2.7%, but this effect was too small to be of use in practical devices.
- In 1994, Miyazaki's team, working independently of Mersevey/Moodera's, also developed a room temperature MTJ with high TMR (18.0%) based on an Fe–Al2O3–Fe stack, thus garnering recognition as co-developer of room temp magnetoresistive tunnelling along with Mersevey/Moodera.[1] Besides its great fundamental interest, room temperature magnetoresistive tunnelling is the basis for practical devices including MRAM and read heads used in hard disks.
- Moodera was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000 "for pioneering and sustained contributions to the understanding of spin-polarized transport in solids." Before investigating ferromagnetic tunneling, Moodera worked for many years on spin-polarized tunneling in superconductor junctions along with Bob Meservey and Paul Tedrow.
- Moodera, Meservey, Tedrow and Miyazaki shared the 2009 Oliver E.
- Buckley Condensed Matter Prize "for pioneering work in the field of spin-dependent tunneling and for the application of these phenomena to the field of magnetoelectronics."[2] Born in Bangalore, India, Moodera attended Mysore University (B.S.
- and M.S.) and the Indian Institute of Technology (Ph.D.).
- He was briefly at West Virginia University before joining the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory staff at MIT in 1981.
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