Dr. Lawrence H. Bennett

Research Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

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Mailing Address

Institute for Magnetics Research

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The George Washington University Virginia Campus
20101 Academic Way
Ashburn, VA 20147-2604

Phone/Email

  Phone:   (703) 726-8299 
  FAX:     (703) 726-8251
  Email: lbennett@gwu.edu
  Office:  Room 227G

Fall '02 Office Hours

   Mon,Wed,Thur  9am-4pm

Biography

  
B.A.     1951   Brooklyn College, NY
M.S.     1955   University of Maryland, MD 
Ph.D.    1958   Rutgers University, NJ
 
First detection of cancer in vivo by nuclear magnetic resonance.
Discovered a new concept in materials for magnetic refrigeration (U.S. Patent #5,381,664).

Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Society for Metals. Chairman, IEEE Magnetics Society Washington/Northern Virginia Chapter. President (1999-2000), American Physical Society Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications. Member of ASTM Committee A006 "Magnetic Properties". Serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Materials Science and Engineering. Founding Editor of the Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams. Past member of Board of Review for Metallurgical Transactions. 

Research interests

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Temperature variation of magnetic aftereffect, E. Della Torre and L.H. Bennett, IEEE Trans. Magn., 37, pp.1118-22 (2001).
 
Magneto-optical behavior in Co/Pt ultrathin film multilayers, R.A. Fry, L.H. Bennett, E. Della Torre, and R. F. C. Farrow, J. Appl. Phys. 87 5765-7 (2000).

Preisach modeling of aftereffect in a magneto-optical medium with perpendicular magnetization, R. A. Fry, A. Reimers, L.H. Bennett, and E. Della Torre, Physica B 275, 50-54 (2000).

Magnetism and incommensurate waves in Zr3(Rh1-xPdx)4, L. H. Bennett, R.M. Waterstrat,, L.J. Swartzendruber, L.A. Bendersky, H.J. Brown, and R.E. Watson, J. Appl. Phys. 87, 6016-8 (2000).

Non-Arrhenius temperature dependence of magnetic after effect, L.J. Swartzendruber, P. Rugkwamsook, L.H. Bennett, and E. Della Torre, J. Appl. Phys. 87, 5684-6 (2000).

Experimental test of the Preisach-Arrhenius model with temperature, E. Della Torre, L.J. Swartzendruber, L.H. Bennett, and P. Rugkwamsook, Physica B 275, 183-186 (2000).

Preisach modeling of a magneto-optical medium with perpendicular magnetization, J. Lou, R.A. Fry, L.H. Bennett, and E. Della Torre, J. Appl. Phys. 85, 4382-4 (1999).

Kerr imaging of a bimodal magneto-optical medium, R.A. Fry, L.H. Bennett, and E. Della Torre, J. Appl. Phys. 85 , 5169-71 (1999).

Magneto-optical measurements of Co-Pt (111) multilayers, R.A. Fry, L.H. Bennett, E. Della Torre, R.D. Shull, W.F. Egelhoff, Jr., R.F.C. Farrow, and C.H. Lee, J. Magn. & Magn. Materials 193, 162 (1999).

A Preisach model for aftereffect, E. Della Torre and L.H. Bennett, IEEE Trans. on Magn. 34, 1276-8 (1998).

Investigation of domain wall formation and motion in magnetic multilayers, L.H. Bennett, M.J. Donahue, A.J. Shapiro, H.J. Brown, V.S.Gornakov, and V.I. Nikitenko, Physica B, 233, 356-64 (1997).

Artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging from Metals, L.H. Bennett, P.S. Wang, and M.J. Donahue, J. Appl. Phys., 79 , 4712 (1996).

Accommodation study of a nanograin iron powder, L.H. Bennett, F. Vajda, U. Atzmony, L.J. Swartzendruber, IEEE Trans. on Magn . 32, 4493-5 (1996).
 

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