Criss Zhang received $10 K educational funding from IEEE Magnetics Society

MIE Ph.D. candidate Criss (Xiaoyu) Zhang just received $10 K research grant from the IEEE Magnetics Society for a year-long international collaborative project with students from the Ames Laboratory (Ames, IA, USA) and ICMM (Madrid, Spain). This proposed research seeks to utilize mechanical stress to tailor solid-state phase transformations, thereby altering the final microstructure and magnetic responses in select bulk ferromagnetic systems, including Fe-Si-B amorphous soft magnetic alloys and alnico hard magnetic alloys.