Renat F. Sabiryanov

Education:

  1988              B.Sc. in Physics, Urals State Technical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

  1989              M.Sc. in Physics, Urals State Technical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

  1993              Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Urals Branch of Russian Academy of

                        Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Professional experience

  1993              Staff member, Institute of Chemistry of Solids,

                        Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia

  1993-1994     Postdoctoral fellow, Brock University, Canada.

  1994-2001     Research Ass. and Research Assistant Prof., University of Nebraska, Lincoln,NE.

2001-2002        Research Ass., Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

2002-present Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE.

 

Research interests and activities

 

Theory of magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, transport, mechanical properties of metals and alloys, magnetic materials, amorphous materials, nanocomposites, quasicrystals. Author of more than 40 articles in refereed journals, 9 invited presentations.

 

Growth of patterned structures at nanoscale. Properties of nanostructures. Micromagnetic modeling.

Ab-initio Monte Carlo simulations of magnets at finite temperature. Magneto-optical properties of transition metals and alloys. Theory of magnetic properties of hard magnet materials. Theory of magnetic properties of 3d metals and their alloys, exchange interactions, spin density excitations and waves. Investigation of magnetic properties of rare earths. The effect of topological disorder on the magnetic properties of 3d metals and their alloys. Electronic structure and magnetism of perovskites (CMR materials).Composite materials : Electronic structure of basic materials (nitride, carbides of transition metals, SiC , TiAlN  etc), influence of substitutional impurities, interfaces between basic components. Adsorption of gases on the surfaces of transition metals and their compounds. Adatom diffusion and growth processes on metal surfaces.

 

List of Relevant and Selected Publications.

1.     Y. Qiang, R. F. Sabiryanov, S. S. Jaswal, Y. Liu, H. Haberland, and D. J. Sellmyer, ÒMagnetism of Co nanocluster filmsÓ, Phys. Rev. B (accepted).

2.     A. Sokolov, R. Sabiryanov, W. Wernsdorfer, and B. Doudin, ÒMagnetization reversal of individual nanowires with controlled defectÓ, J. Appl. Phys. (accepted)

3.     M.I. Larsson, B. Lee, R. Sabiryanov, K. Cho, W. Nix and B.M. Clemens, ÒKinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Strain-Induced Nanopatterning of Hexagonal SurfacesÓ, J. Appl. Phys.(accepted)

4.     S.-H. Liou, R. F. Sabiryanov, S. S. Jaswal, J. C. Wu, Y. D. Yao, ÒMagnetic domain patterns of rectangular and elliptic arrays of small permalloy elementsÓ, J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 226, 1270 (2001).

5.      R. F. Sabiryanov and S. S. Jaswal, "Magnetovolume effect in Nd5Fe17", J. Appl. Phys. 87, 4750 (2000).

6.     R. F. Sabiryanov and S. S. Jaswal, Magnons and Magnon-phonon interactions in Fe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2062 (1999).

7.     S. S. Jaswal and R. F. Sabiryanov, "First-principle studies of permanent-magnet  materialsÓ in Advanced Hard and Soft Magnetic Materials, Proc. MRS symposium, 577, 109 (1999).

8.     R. F. Sabiryanov and S. S. Jaswal, Magnetic properties of hard/soft composites: SmCo5/Co1-xFex, Phys. Rev. B 58, 12071 (1998).

9.     6. R. F. Sabiryanov and S. S. Jaswal, Electronic structure and magnetic properties of Y-Fe compounds, Phys. Rev. B 57, 7767 (1998).

10.  R. F. Sabiryanov and S. S. Jaswal, ab-initio Calculations of the Curie temperature of Complex Permanent-Magnet Materials, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 155 (1997).

11.  R. F. Sabiryanov and S. S. Jaswal, ab-initio Calculations of the Curie temperature of Complex Permanent-Magnet Materials: Sm2Fe16A (A=Ga,Si), J. Appl. Phys. 81, 5615, (1997).