Ian Appelbaum obtained his B.S. summa cum laude in Physics and Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and Ph.D. in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After spending one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, he is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and is the recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award and the University of Delaware's Outstanding Junior Faculty Member of the College of Engineering for 2008.

The Birk Nanotechnology Center, The Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue Discovery Park, The Network for Computational Nanotechnology, VEECO, NCN Student Leadership Council, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, School of Chemical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering

1. Ian Appelbaum, B.Q. Huang, and D.J. Monsma, "Electronic measurement and control of spin transport in silicon," Nature 447, 295 (2007).
2. B.Q. Huang, D.J. Monsma, and Ian Appelbaum, "Coherent spin transport through a 350-micron-thick silicon wafer," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177209 (2007).

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Ian Appelbaum (2008), "Silicon Spintronics," https://nanohub.org/resources/4492.

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