Chris Leighton

Chris Leighton
Born	Christopher Leighton
Alma mater	Durham University (BSc, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Material physics
Institutions	University of Minnesota
Thesis	Persistent photoconductivity and the metal-insulator transition in Cd(_1-x)Mn(_x)Te:In  (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Ian Terry

Christopher Leighton is a British physicist. He is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. ^[1]

Leighton holds a BSc in Physics (1994) and a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics (1998) from Durham University. ^{[1] [2]} From 1998 to 2001, he was a postdoc in material physics at the University of California, San Diego. ^[1]

Leighton was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012 and an IEEE Fellow in 2020. ^{[3] [1]} His research revolves around the electronic and magnetic properties of a wide range of novel materials, including complex oxides, oxide heterostructures, metallic spintronics, complex alloys, organic conductors, and photovoltaics. ^[4]

Selected publications

• Leighton, Chris; Nogués, Josep; Jönsson-Åkerman, B. J.; Schuller, Ivan K. (2000). "Coercivity enhancement in exchange biased systems driven by interfacial magnetic frustration". Physical Review Letters. 84 (15): 3466–3469. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..84.3466L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3466. PMID   11019116.
• Wu, Jiansheng; Leighton, Chris (2003). "Glassy ferromagnetism and magnetic phase separation in La₁₋ₓSrₓCoO₃". Physical Review B. 67 (17): 174408. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.67.174408.
• Lee, Sangwoo; Leighton, Chris; Bates, Frank S. (2014). "Sphericity and symmetry breaking in the formation of Frank–Kasper phases from one-component materials". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (50): 17723–17731. Bibcode:2014PNAS..11117723L. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1408678111 . PMC   4273414 . PMID   25378703.
• Leighton, Chris (2019). "Electrolyte-based ionic control of functional oxides". Nature Materials. 18 (1): 13–18. Bibcode:2019NatMa..18...13L. doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0246-7. PMID   30542099.

References

1. "Chris Leighton". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
2. Leighton, Christopher (1998). Persistent photoconductivity and the metal-insulator transition in Cd(_1-x)Mn(_x)Te:In (PDF) (PhD thesis). Durham University. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
3. "GMAG Sponsored APS Fellows" (PDF). GMAG Newsletter (39): 1. March 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
4. Meystre, Pierre (2017). "Editorial: Welcoming Chris Leighton to Physical Review Materials". Physical Review Materials. 1 (1): 010001. Bibcode:2017PhRvM...1a0001M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.010001.

External links

• Chris Leighton publications indexed by Google Scholar