Aug 18 2015
This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the areas of magnetism. Dr. Hayashi won the prize for “the pioneering work on domain wall dynamics in magnetic nanowires and contributions to the development of current controlled magnetism in magnetic heterostructures using spin orbit effects”.
Dr. Hayashi (center) receiving the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize, Professor Xiaofeng Jin (left, Commission Chair) and Professor Burkard Hillebrands (right, Commission Secretary)
His work has contributed to advancing the understanding of electrical control of the magnetization direction of nanoscale magnets, which is a crucial technology for next generation information storage and computation devices.
Source: http://www.nims.go.jp/