Evgeny Tsymbal

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Evgeny Tsymbal

Professor Physics & Astronomy University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
JH 310B
Lincoln, NE 68588-0299
Phone
402-472-2586 On-campus 2-2586
Email
tsymbal@unl.edu
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Evgeny Tsymbal joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 2002 as an Associate Professor, was promoted to Full Professor with Tenure in 2005, and was named Charles Bessey Professor in 2009 and George Holmes University Distinguished Professor in 2013. Prior to his appointment at UNL, he was a senior research scientist at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom; a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Research Center Jülich, Germany; and a research scientist at the Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” in Moscow.

Evgeny Tsymbal has published over 300 papers, review articles and book chapters and presented over 200 invited talks in the areas of spin-dependent transport, magnetoresistive phenomena, nanoscale magnetism, complex oxide heterostructures, interface magnetoelectric phenomena, two-dimensional electron gases, and ferroelectric tunnel junctions. He is a co-editor of three-volume Spintronics Handbook: Spin Transport and Magnetism published in 2019. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy, Nanoelectronics Research Corporation, Seagate Technology, and the W. M. Keck Foundation.

From 2007 to 2021, Evgeny Tsymbal served as Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) “Polarization and Spin Phenomena in Nanoferroic Structures,” which involved more than 20 faculty members from six departments at the University of Nebraska. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, MRSECs are centers of excellence that support high-quality interdisciplinary materials research and education. From 2013 to 2017, he also served as Director of the Center for NanoFerroic Devices (CNFD), jointly sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This multi-institutional center was charged with developing non-conventional electronic devices that can scale computer technology beyond CMOS.

Evgeny Tsymbal is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, and a recipient of the UNL’s Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (ORCA).

Education

Ph.D. Russian Academy of Sciences, 1988

Research Interests

Evgeny Tsymbal’s research is focused on computational materials science, aiming at the understanding of fundamental properties of advanced ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanostructures and materials relevant to nanoelectronics and spintronics – relatively new research fields promising revolutionize electronic and data storage industries. First-principles calculations, along with model-based approaches, are employed to address a wide range of highly challenging problems across varying levels of complexity. An important component of the research is a strong link to experimental investigations conducted at the University of Nebraska and in other academic and industrial laboratories worldwide.

Recent Publications

  • Yuliang Chen, Kartik Samanta, Naafis A. Shahed, Haojie Zhang, Chi Fang, Arthur Ernst, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal & Stuart S. P. Parkin. Twist-assisted all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction in the atomic limit. Nature 632, 1045–1051 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07818-x
  • Samanta, Kartik and Jiang, Yuan-Yuan and Paudel, Tula R. and Shao, Ding-Fu and Tsymbal, Evgeny Y. Tunneling magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions with a single ferromagnetic electrode. Phys. Rev. B 109, 17, 174407 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.174407 
  •  Shao, DF., Tsymbal, E.Y. Antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions for spintronics. npj Spintronics 2, 13 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44306-024-00014-7 
  • Wu, Yao and Zhang, Yuke and Jiang, Jie and Jiang, Limei and Tang, Minghua and Zhou, Yichun and Liao, Min and Yang, Qiong and Tsymbal, Evgeny Y. Unconventional Polarization-Switching Mechanism in (Hf, Zr)⁢O2 Ferroelectrics and Its Implications. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226802. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.226802 
  • Jiang, Yuan-Yuan and Wang, Zi-An and Samanta, Kartik and Zhang, Shu-Hui and Xiao, Rui-Chun and Lu, W. J. and Sun, Y. P. and Tsymbal, Evgeny Y. and Shao, Ding-Fu. Prediction of giant tunneling magnetoresistance in Ru⁢O2/Ti⁢O2/Ru⁢O2 (110) antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions. Phys. Rev. B 108, 174439. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.174439 
  • Shao, Ding-Fu and Jiang, Yuan-Yuan and Ding, Jun and Zhang, Shu-Hui and Wang, Zi-An and Xiao, Rui-Chun and Gurung, Gautam and Lu, W. J. and Sun, Y. P. and Tsymbal, Evgeny Y. Néel Spin Currents in Antiferromagnets. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216702. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.216702