Kjetil Magne Dørheim Hals

Prof. Dr. Hals works within the fields of spintronics and spinmechatronics, where the spin of the electron (and not just the charge) is used to develop novel spin-based devices. Important examples of such devices include magnetic random-access memories, which have revolutionized modern memory technology, as well as quantum computing architectures, high frequency oscillators, spin & charge pumps, nanoscale engines, and reprogrammable magnetic logics that are electrically manipulated by currents. The anticipated application potential of this research is in replacing charge-based electronics with ultra-fast, spin-based, low-power, low-noise devices, which have novel forms of signal transmission.

FYS 121-G  Physics – Renewable Energy

FYS 118-G  Physics – Civil Engineering

FYS 008-G  Preliminary Physics Course for Engineers

• 2018 – present: Professor at University of Agder, Norway.
• 2017 – 2018: Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.
• 2017: Postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany.
• 2014 – 2016: Niels Bohr Postdoctoral Fellow at the Niels Bohr International Academy, Denmark.
• 2013 – 2013: Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
• 2011 – 2012: Researcher at Christian Michelsen Research, Bergen, Norway.

• Spintronics
• Superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures
• Spinmechatronics
• Spin transport and dynamics in antiferromagnets, ferromagnets, and superconducting systems
• Topological spin phenomena

• The Research Council of Norway, Grant No. 334202 ”Ultra-Efficient Energy Harvesting with Antiferromagnetic Thermoelectrics”.
• The Research Council of Norway, Young Research Talents Grant, Grant No. 286889 ”Antiferromagnetic Spinmechatronics”.

• Chiara Ciccarelli, Kjetil M. D. Hals, Andrew Irvine, Vit Novak, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak,Hidekazu Kurebayashi, Arne Brataas, and Andrew Ferguson, ”Magnonic charge pumping via spin-orbit coupling”, Nature Nanotechnology 10, 50 (2015).
• Arne Brataas and Kjetil M. D. Hals, “Spin-orbit torques in action”, Nature Nanotechnology 9, 86 (2014).
• Kjetil M. D. Hals, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Arne Brataas, ”Phenomenology of current-induced dynamics in antiferromagnets”, Physical Review Letters 106, 107206 (2011).
• Kjetil M. D. Hals, Michael Schecter and Mark S. Rudner, “Composite topological excitations in ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures”, Physical  Review Letters 117, 017001 (2016).
• Kjetil M. D. Hals and Karin Everschor-Sitte, ”New Boundary-Driven Twist States in Systems with Broken Spatial Inversion Symmetry ”, Physical Review Letters 119, 127203 (2017).
• Davi R. Rodrigues, Akshaykumar Salimath, Karin Everschor-Sitte, and Kjetil M. D. Hals, "Spin-Wave Driven Bidirectional Domain Wall Motion in Kagome Antiferromagnets", Physical Review Letters 127, 157203 (2021).
• Mike A. Lund, Akshaykumar Salimath, and Kjetil M. D. Hals, Spin pumping in noncollinear antiferromagnets, Physical Review B 104, 174424 (2021).

PATENTS:
Granted patent in the field of topological quantum computation (2020): “Method and device for providing anyons, use of the device”, J. Nothhelfer, K. M. D. Hals, K. Everschor-Sitte, and M. Rizzi – European Patent Application EP3751472A1/ International Patent Application WO2020EP66120 / JP2022536714A / US20220261678A1 / CN114008639A.

For a complete overview of the research, please visit the Google Scholar page:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-IK94JYAAAAJ&hl=en