S.N. Piramanayagam

Senior Scientist,

Data Storage Institute, Singapore

Spintronics, Media and Interface Division Data Storage Institute (DSI) 5 Engineering Drive 1 Singapore 117608 Ph: +65 68748550 Fax: +65 65160900 e-mail: prem_SN@dsi.a-star.edu.sg Web: http://home.pacific.net.sg/~preetiprem/index.html Or Simply http://go.to/prem
Research Interests
Magnetic nanostructures Spintronics Thin film technology Magnetic recording media (patterned media and perpendicular recording media)
Curriculum Vitae
Working Experience (Period)	Senior Scientist, Data Storage Institute, 2008 onwards Research Scientist, Data Storage Institute, 2003 onwards Principal Research Engineer, Data Storage Institute, 2002 - 2003 Senior Research Engineer, Data Storage Institute, June 1999-Dec. 2001 Post-Doctoral research, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan, 1995-1999
Academic Qualifications	Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (1994) M. Sc., University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India (1988)
Professional Appointments	Assistant Program Manager (DSI) Sep. 2002- Sep. 2003 Adjunct Associate Professor, ECE, NUS Jan. 2003-2009 Secretary, IEEE Magnetics Society (2004-2005, 2008-2009) Chapter chair, IEEE Magnetics Society (2006-2007, 2010~).
Awards received	DSI outstanding research award, 2000 DSI outstanding research award, 2003 DSI merit award for outstanding research, 2005 DSI outstanding research award, 2006 DSI best paper award, 2006 DSI outstanding student award, 2005 for the graduate student under my supervision. DSI outstanding research award, 2008 Best Poster Award, ICMAT 2009
Recent Invited Talks in Major International Conferences	The Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC) 2006, Pittsburgh, USA – Invited talk on perpendicular recording media Joint MMM/Intermag 2007, USA – Invited talk on perpendicular recording media The Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC) 2008, Singapore – Invited talk on perpendicular recording media The Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC) 2008, Singapore – Invited talk on patterned media MMM 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA – Invited talk on perpendicular recording media IEEE Nano 2009, Genova, Italy – Invited talk on patterned media The Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC) 2009, Alabama, USA – Invited talk on tribology of patterned media
Conference Organization	Chair, Symposium E, ICMAT 2009 Chair, Symposium L, ICMAT 2011
Selected Recent Publications	S.N. Piramanayagam, Rachid Sbiaa, Ei-Leen Tan, Allen Wei Choong Poh, Hang Khume Tan, Kyaw Oo Aung, J.M. Zhao and S.K. Wong, “Planarization of Patterned Recording Media”, IEEE Trans. Magn. 46(3) 759 (2010). K. Srinivasan, S.N. Piramanayagam and Y.S. Kay, “Effect of RuCoCr-oxide intermediate layers on the growth, microstructure, and recording performance of CoCrPt–SiO2 perpendicular recording media”, J. Appl. Phys. 107, 033901 (2010). R. Sbiaa, S.N. Piramanayagam and R. Law, “Magnetization reorientation in antiferromagnetically coupled Co films and Co/Pd multilayers”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 242502 (2009). S.K. Wong, B.H. Chia, K. Srinivasan, R. Law, E-L. Tan, H.K. Tan, R. Sbiaa and S.N. Piramanayagam, “Anomalous Hall effect measurement of novel magnetic multilayers”, J. Appl. Phys. 106, 093904 (2009) K. Srinivasan, S.N. Piramanayagam, R. Sbiaa, Y.S. Kay, H.K. Tan and S.K. Wong, “Antiferromagnetic iridium manganese intermediate layers for perpendicular magnetic recording media (Invited)” J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07B738 (2009). S.N. Piramanayagam, K.O. Aung, S. Deng and R. Sbiaa, “Antiferromagnetically Coupled Patterned Media”, J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07C118 (2009). S. N. Piramanayagam, Kumar Srinivasan, H. K. Tan, B. C. Lim, and S. K. Wong, “Evolution of Perpendicular Recording Media Grains on Carbon-Based Synthetic Nucleation Layer (Invited)”, IEEE Trans. Magn., 45(2) 793 (2009). S.N. Piramanayagam and K. Srinivasan, “Sub-6-nm grain size control in polycrystalline thin films using synthetic nucleation layer”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 142508 (2007). S.N. Piramanayagam, “Perpendicular recording media for hard disk drives”, J. Appl. Phys. 102, 011301 (2007). (Featured cover page review article and the most downloaded article of JAP, July 2007).
Postgraduate students being supervised:	Deng Suzi, Chemistry, NUS (Ph.D.) Sujit Kumar Barik, Physics, NUS (Ph.D.) Mojtaba Ranjbar (Ph.D.) Taiebeh Tahmasebi (Ph.D.) Nikita Gaur (Ph.D.) Amir Tavakkoli Kermani Ghariehali (Ph.D.)