Fourth-year Physics student Ishaan Patel has been awarded an Astronaut Scholarship, one of the largest merit-based monetary scholarships for college undergraduates studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Patel works with Professor Jeffrey Teo.

“We are examining a model for altermagnets in three dimensions,” Patel said. “Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials that had gone unnoticed until fairly recently and are thought to have applications in spintronics, a field which utilizes the spin of the electron to store information just as electronics use the electric charge of the electron.”

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