Theo Rasing

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Theo Rasing (left) at the handover of the Spinoza Prize (2008)

Theodorus "Theo" Henricus Maria Rasing (born May 26, 1953 in Didam ) is a Dutch physicist. He deals experimentally with the spectroscopy of solids and surfaces.

Rasing studied physics at Radboud University Nijmegen , where he graduated in 1976 and received his doctorate in 1982. As a post-doctoral student he was on an IBM scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley . He became a member of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. From 1988 he was assistant professor and from 1997 full professor at the University of Nijmegen. There he is the founder of the Nijmegen Center for Advanced Spectroscopy (NCAS) and (for commercial applications) the NanoLab Nijmegen.

Rasing is a pioneer in the development of non-linear optical methods for manipulating molecules and materials on surfaces in the nanometer range, in particular magnetic nanostructures and magnetic multilayers (static and dynamic with femtosecond laser pulses).

Here, for example, he developed the technique of magnetization induced second harmonic generation (MSHG) to investigate magnetic layer structures in the nanometer range.

In 2011, his group succeeded in remagnetization (transition from ferrimagnets to ferromagnets ) using ultra-short laser pulses, which also opens up the prospect of new, very fast data storage methods.

In 2007 he received the Physica Prize of the Dutch Physical Society and in 2008 the Spinoza Prize , the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. In 2009 he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society. In 2010 he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2013 . He is the holder of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

Fonts

  • with Igor Musevic Surfaces and Interfaces of Liquid Crystals , Springer 2004
  • Andrei Kirilyuk, Alexey V. Kimel, Theo Rasing: Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic order , Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 82, 2010, p. 2731

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ HA Wierenga, MWJ Prins, DL Abraham, Th. Rasing Magnetization-induced optical second-harmonic generation: a probe for interface magnetism , Phys. Rev. B, Volume 50, 1994, p. 1282
  2. ↑ Rainer Scharf Ultra-fast magnetization reversal brings a surprise , Pro Physik online, March 31, 2011
  3. ^ I. Radu, Rasing et al. a. Transient ferromagnetic-like state mediating ultrafast reversal of antiferromagnetically coupled spins , Nature, Volume 472, 2011, pp. 205-208
  4. ^ Membership directory: Theo Rasing. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rasing, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasing, Theodorus Henricus Maria (full name); Rasing, Theo Henricus Maria (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Didam