NSERC-Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Department of Chemistry
and Chemical Biology,
12 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA, 02138, USA, Office: M 110
anajmaie_at_fas.harvard.edu
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Telephone: (617) 495-9676
Fax: (617) 384-7920
Full CV available upon request
Education
Hon B.Sc., Physics, University of Toronto (1998) Advisor: Prof. H-R. Cho
M.Sc., Physics, McMaster University (2000) Advisors: Profs. Catherine Kallin & John Berlinsky
Ph.D., Physics, University of Toronto (2005) Advisor: Prof. John Sipe
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Research interests include
- Density Functional Theory
- Entanglement
- Spintronics
- Quantum computing
- Optical biosensing
Recent news articles about my research:
Future of electronics spun on its heels? News@UoT, by Karen Kally
The future of computers is in a spin, Canadian University Press, by Mike Ghenu
Publications:
Journals:
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E. Ya. Sherman, Ali Najmaie, H.M. van Driel, A. L. Smirl and J. E. Sipe
Ultrafast extrinsic spin-Hall currents
Solid State Communications 139, 439 (2006)
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H. Zhao, X. Pan, Aurthur L. Smirl, R.D.R. Bhat, Ali Najmaie, J.E. Sipe and H. M. van Driel
Injection of ballistic pure spin currents in semiconductors by a single-color linearly polarized beam
Phys. Rev. B Rapid, 72, 201302 (2005)
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Ali Najmaie, E. Ya. Sherman and J.E. Sipe
Generation of spin currents via Raman scattering
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 056601 (2005)
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Ali Najmaie, E. Ya. Sherman, and J. E. Sipe
Raman mechanism for spin-current generation in a two-dimensional electron gas
Phys. Rev. B Rapid 72, 041304(R) (2005)
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Ali Najmaie, Arthur L. Smirl, and J.E. Sipe,
All-optical ejection and control of spin currents from a quantum well
Phys. Rev. B 71, 075306 (2005)
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R.D.R. Bhat, F. Nastos, Ali Najmaie, and J.E. Sipe,
Pure spin current from one-photon absorption of linearly polarized light in noncentrosymmetric semiconductors
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096603 (2005)
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E. Ya. Sherman, Ali Najmaie and J.E. Sipe,
Spin current injection by intersubband transitions in quantum wells
Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 122103 (2005)
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Martin J. Stevens, Arthur L. Smirl, R. D. R. Bhat, Ali Najmaie, J. E. Sipe, and H. M. van Driel,
Quantum interference control of ballistic pure spin currents in semiconductors
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136603 (2003)
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Martin J. Stevens, Ali Najmaie, R. D. R. Bhat, J. E. Sipe, H. M. van Driel and Arthur L. Smirl,
Optical injection and coherent control of a ballistic charge current in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells
J. Appl. Phys. 94, 4999 (2003)
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Ali Najmaie, R.D.R. Bhat and J.E. Sipe,
All-optical injection and control of spin and electrical currents in quantum wells
Phys. Rev. B 68, 165348 (2003)
Book chapters and conference proceedings:
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Optics of semiconductors and their nanostructures: H. Kalt, M. Hetterich (Eds.) Spinger-Verlag (2004)
M. J. Stevens, R.D.R. Bhat, Ali Najmaie, H. M. van Driel, J.E. Sipe and A.L. Smirl,
All-Optical control of charge and spin in GaAs: densities and currents, page 209-245.
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Ballistic spin transport without net charge transport in quantum wells,
A.L. Smirl, M.J. Stevens, R.D.R. Bhat, Ali Najmaie, J.E. Sipe, H.M. van Driel,
Semiconductor Science and Technology, 19, S369(2004).
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Injection of spin current in semiconductor nanostructures by infrared optical processes
E. Ya. Sherman, Ali Najmaie, and J. E. Sipe
Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5971, 597119 (2005).
