Dr.Moodera S Jagadeesh

Dr.Moodera S Jagadeesh(PhD) from Kodagu was born in Bangalore. He is a senior research scientist at MIT’s Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory. He led a multinational team of researchers for developing a novel magnetic semiconductor that will greatly increase computing power and flexibility of future electronic devices, while dramatically reducing their power consumption.

Family

Father

Moodera Subbaiah

Wife

Moodera (Berera) Gita Jagdeesh

Education

• He did his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mysore University
• Received his Ph.D Condensed Matter Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (Madras).

Career

• Dr Jagadeesh went to the United States in 1979 after his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees

Achievements

• He joined MIT in 1981 as a research staff at the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory (FBML), and leads the “Thin Film Magnetism, Superconductivity and Nanospintronics” group.
• 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%.
• He 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 tunnelling,
• He worked for many years on spin-polarized tunneling in superconductor junctions along with Bob Meservey and Paul Tedrow.
• He has worked in several areas of fundamental and applied physics that includes nanospintronics, spin polarized transport and tunneling, thin film magnetism, superconductivity and topological insulators.
• He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000 and awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize from the American Physical Society in 2009.

Awards

He received the Coorg  person of the Year 2008