Robert Camley, Ph.D.

Robert Camley, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Physics and Energy Science
ENGR 208
Areas of Interest
- Theoretical solid state physics
- Magnetic dynamics – spin waves, ferromagnetic resonance
- Nonlinear physics – chaos, mixing of waves, etc.
- Surface excitations
- Signal processing at microwave and THz frequencies
- BioPhysics – measuring temperature in MRI
Education
- Ph.D in Physics, University of California at Irvine, 1979
- MS in Physics, University of California at Irvine, 1977
- BA in Physics and Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, 1973
Teaching - Recent Courses
- Computational Physics
- Nonlinear Physics
- Modern Magnetism: Theory and Applications
- Astrophysics
Awards and Honors
- CU Distinguished Professor (2012)
- CU Inventor of the Year (2012)
- Chancellor's Award (2005)
- College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Outstanding Research Award (2000)
- CU System - President's Teaching Scholar (1999)
- Campus Outstanding Research Award (1997)
- Campus Outstanding Teaching Award (1986)
- College of College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (1986)
Current PhD Students
- Brianne McGrath (with K. Livesey)
- Matt Copus
- Jacob Bible
- Mark Tyboroski
- Connor Wood
- Reed Jones (with R. Macedo)
- Jeramy Lewis
Selected Recent Publications
- "Unusual nature of confined modes in a chiral system: Directional transport in standing waves" BW Zingsem, M Farle, RL Stamps, RE Camley, Physical Review B 99, 214429 (2019)
- "Far-Infrared Reflection from Heterostructures Made of Ultrathin Ferromagnetic Layers" PM Yarbrough, KL Livesey, RE Camley, R Macêdo, Physical Review Applied 12, 024004 (2019)
- "Nonlinear power-dependent effects in exchange-coupled magnetic bilayers" Aaron Ferona and Robert E Camley, Physical Review B, 99, 064405 (2019)
- "Exploration of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Behavior in a Magnetic System" Jeramy Lewis, Robert E Camley, Nicholas R Anderson, Physical Review Letters, 20, 167203 (2018)
- "Oriented Asymmetric Wave Propagation and Refraction Bending in Hyperbolic Media" Rair Macêdo, Thomas Dumelow, Robert E Camley, Robert L Stamps, ACS Photonics, 5, 5086-5094 (2018)
- "Development of Ferrite-Based Temperature Sensors for Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Study of Cu1-xZnxFe2O4" NA Alghamdi, Janusz H Hankiewicz, NR Anderson, Karl F Stupic, RE Camley, M Przybylski, J Żukrowski, Z Celinski, Physical Review Applied, 9, 054030 (2018)
- “Nonlinear and chaotic magnetization dynamics near bifurcations of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation” Aaron M. Ferona and Robert E. Camley, Phys. Rev. B 95, 104421 1-12 (2017)
- “Spin Wave Power Flow and Caustics in Ultrathin Ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction. “ Kim, J.-V., Stamps, R. L., Camley, R. E. Physical Review Letters, 117(19), 197204 (4 pages) (2016).
- “Ferromagnetic particles as magnetic resonance imaging temperature sensors” J. H. Hankiewicz, Z. Celinski, K. F. Stupic, N. R. Anderson, and R. E. Camley, Nature Communications, 7, Article number:12415 (8 pages) (2016)