NVE Founder Wins Daniel E. Noble
Award for MRAM
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.December 3, 2007NVE Corporation (Nasdaq: NVEC)
announced today that its founder, James M. Daughton, Ph.D., has been named a 2008
co-recipient of the prestigious IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award.
The award is sponsored by the Motorola Foundation and presented by the IEEE,
which is considered the world's leading professional association for the advancement
of technology. According to the IEEE, the award is "for fundamental contributions
to the development of magnetoresistance devices for non-volatile, high density,
random access memory."
Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) is an integrated-circuit memory
which is fabricated with nanotechnology and uses electron spin to store data.
It may have the potential to combine many of the best attributes of different
types of semiconductor memories.
Daughton founded NVE in 1989 and was Chairman and CEO for most of its history.
From 2001 until 2006 he was the company's Chief Technology Officer. Daughton has
published approximately 80 papers and been granted approximately 40 U.S. patents.
His inventions are at the heart of NVE's technology portfolio.
Much of Daughton's MRAM work has been in collaboration with Arthur V. Pohm,
Ph.D., an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State
University and longtime NVE employee. Daughton and Pohm's recent inventions relate
to next-generation MRAM technologies including magneto-thermal MRAM and spin-momentum
transfer MRAM.
Magnetothermal MRAM uses a combination of ultra-fast magnetic fields and heat
pulses, both from electrical current. Spin-momentum transfer is a method of changing
the spin of storage electrons directly with an electrical current rather than
an induced magnetic field. Both technologies may have the potential to reduce
the energy required to write data and allow reducing memory cell size while maintaining
thermal stability.
Before founding NVE, Daughton spent more than 15 years at Honeywell Inc. where
he was a vice president of research and development. Before that, he spent ten
years at IBM working on magnetic and semiconductor memory devices. He received
B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.
He has served as an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Minnesota
and on the Industrial Advisory Board for the Center for Nanoscale Systems at Cornell
University.
Daughton has received a number of other awards including being named an IEEE
Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 1994 and an IEEE Fellow for "pioneering
work on commercial magnetic field sensors and memories using giant magnetoresistance
materials" in 1996. He received the Minnesota Tekne Award for Innovation
in 2004.
The Daniel E. Noble Award presentation is scheduled for September 2008. Co-recipients
are Saied Tehrani of Freescale, Inc. and Stuart Parkin of IBM.
Links to information on the award
can be found on NVE's Website.
NVE is a leader in the practical commercialization of spintronics, a nanotechnology
that many experts believe represents the next generation of microelectronics.
NVE licenses its MRAM intellectual property and sells spintronic products, including
sensors and couplers, to revolutionize data sensing and transmission.
Statements used in this press release that relate to future plans, events,
or performance are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks
and uncertainties including, among others, such factors as risks related to MRAM
commercialization, risks in the enforcement of our patents as well as the risk
factors listed from time to time in its filings with the SEC, including NVE Corporation's
Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the SEC.
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