Raffi Budakian

Professor, Physics and Astronomy; University of Waterloo Endowed Chair in Nanotechnology

Research interests: coupling spins and nanomechanical oscillators; nanometer scale magnetic resonance imaging

Biography

Professor Raffi Budakian earned his Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2002 to 2005, he was a visiting scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He then joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until his appointment at the University of Waterloo. In 2005, he won a World Technology Award for his work on the detection and manipulation of quantum spins.

Education

PhD Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000
MS Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
BS Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, summa cum laude, 1994

Research

Research Interests

Coupling spins and nanomechanical oscillators
Nanometer scale magnetic resonance imaging
Exploring nanometer scale quantum phenomena in condensed matter system

Publications

Recent publications include:

J.M. Nichol, E.R. Hemesath, L.J. Lauhon, R. Budakian, Nanomechanical detection of nuclear magnetic resonance using a silicon nanowire oscillator. Phys. Rev. B., 054414-1-6 (2012).
M. Kim, X.M. Chen, X. Wang, C.S. Nelson, R. Budakian, P. Abbamonte, S.L. Cooper, Pressure and field tuning the magnetostructural phases of Mn3O4: Raman scattering and x-ray diffraction studies. Phys. Rev. B., 174424-1-11 (2011).
J. Jang, D.G. Ferguson, V. Vakaryuk, R. Budakian, S.B. Chung, P.M. Goldbart,and Y. Maeno, Observation of half-height magnetization steps in Sr2RuO4. Science 331, 186-188 (2011).
R. Budakian, H. J. Mamin, B. W. Chui, and D. Rugar. Creating order from random fluctuations in small spin ensembles. Science 307, 408-411 (2005).
R. Budakian, H. J. Mamin, and D. Rugar. Suppression of spin diffusion near a micron-size ferromagnet. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 037205-1-4 (2004).
D. Rugar, R. Budakian, H. J. Mamin, and B. W. Chi. Single spin detection by magnetic resonance force microscopy. Nature 430, 329-332 (2004).
H. J. Mamin, R. Budakian, B. W. Chui, and D. Rugar. Detection and manipulation of statistical polarization in small spin ensembles. Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 207604-1-4 (2003)