1. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Research &
Development
1st of May 2012
(present)
2011 (6 months)
2008-2011
Process Support Engineer - Applied Materials France – SSG CTO Office (Grenoble, France)
Non-volatile memories eNVM (ResistiveRAM & Phase change RAM) project in collaboration
with LETI:
 Writing documentation on process of alloy development by co-sputtering
 Characterization of the deposited alloys by co-sputtering or simple sputtering from one alloy target:
thickness non uniformity and composition concentration as well non uniformity
 Develop process flow on PVD tool to obtain functional thin film materials for PCM applications and
to be used in qualifying tests of the AMAT tools as sputtering tools
 Continually improving process and hardware of the tool
Co-sputtering PVD chamber development with Engineering division SCLA:
 Co-sputtering chamber development
 Process development of alloys (binary and ternary) using co-sputtering technique.
 Characterization of the alloys obtained by co-sputtering: thickness and composition
Magnetic Random Access Memories (MRAM) project in collaboration with Spintec:
 Characterization of the magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) by transport, magnetic/structural
measurements and translate the results into solutions in order to help the team in the development of
different tools and process on PVD tools, fast annealing ovens and IBE/RIE etch tools to obtain very
high quality MRAM products
 Develop process flow on PVD to obtain functional thin film materials for Spintronics applications and
to be used in qualifying tests of the AMAT tools (FePt L10 by multilayers, thin Co/Pt multilayers,
perpendicular MTJ) as sputtering tools, etch tools and rapid annealing ovens
 Knowledge transfer from the research environment to the industry
Magnetic Random Access Memories (MRAM) Physical Vapour deposition tool development
project:
 Consulting on Spintronics, Magnetic thin films, Magnetism topics for different teams (Metal deposition
team (MD PVD), etch team and Varian implant team
 Writing documentation on measuring techniques and data analysis on thin magnetic films for
Spintronic applications in order to support the MD PVD AMAT team and implant team from Varian
 Characterization of the magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) by transport, magnetic/structural
measurements and translate the results into solutions in order to help the team in the development of
different tools and process on PVD tools, fast annealing ovens and IBE/RIE etch tools to obtain very
high quality MRAM products
 Develop process flow on PVD to obtain functional thin film materials for Spintronics applications and
to be used in qualifying tests of the AMAT tools (FePt L10 by multilayers, thin Co/Pt multilayers,
perpendicular MTJ) as sputtering tools, etch tools and rapid annealing ovens
Collaborations: Varian (Morgan Evans), SPINTEC (B. Dieny, B. Rodmacq, I. Joumard, S. Auffret), LETI (A.
Roule, C. Sabbione, L. Perniola, CTO AMAT (Mahedra Pakal, Er-Xuan Ping, Michel Frey), metrology AMAT
(Charles C Wang)
Oral communications: poster on internal applied ET Conference Santa Clara 2013, 2 poster in international
conference, 3 oral presentations, 1 patent
Prize: best Employee of the CTO office for the 4th quarter of 2012
CNRS Associated Research Scientist at Institut Néel – NANO group (Grenoble, France)
Magnetic properties variation with the pillar size for thin films based on materials with out of
plane anisotropy used in the fabrication of the Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
 Choice of the materials for this study and materials preparation by PVD (thicknesses and annealing
choice)
 Nanofabrication of pillars down to 30nm using e-beam lithography and IBE etching
 Magnetic characterization of continuous thin films
 Study of the magnetic properties and switching with an applied field of the different pillar sizes using
a Focused Kerr Magnetometer in order to understand the switching in pillars for MRAM applications
Collaborations: SPINTEC (B. Rodmacq, S. Auffret, G. Gaudin, Liliana Buda-Prejbeanu)
Oral communications: poster on national conference, 1 oral presentation on international conference
Scientific publications: 1 paper in international journal
PhD Candidate on Materials Science at SPINTEC UMR 8191 CEA/CNRS/UJF/INPG
(Grenoble, France):
Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: anisotropy, tunnel magnetoresistance magnetic
coupling and spin torque switching phenomenon
 Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions device fabrication (by DC sputtering) and nanofabrication
124 A Avenue General Leclerc
38950 St Martin le Vinoux, FRANCE
lavinia.nistor@gmail.com
(+33)0608573110
20 mai 1984 Hunedoara (Romania)
Single
Lavinia Elena NISTOR, Ph.D

2. 2008
(3 months)
2004-2007
Teaching
2014 - today
2010
2008-2009
2006
2005
Associations
2005-2007
 Magnetic (anisotropy) and transport properties improvement for the study of the nanopillars switching
with a spin polarised current
 Investigation of the origins of the out of plane anisotropy at Co(Fe)/MgO interface and of
antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling phenomenon in perpendicular MTJ
 Collaborations: CROCUS Technology (C. Ducruet, C. Portemont, L. Prejbeanu), SPINTEC (Mairbeck Chshiev)
Oral communications : 11 national and international conferences (best poster prize and session chair)
Scientific publications: 5 international journal papers and 1 patent
Master 2 Research Internship at SPINTEC (Grenoble, France)
Fabrication of out of plane magnetization electrodes by growing a magnetic metal on oxides
 Study of the magnetic properties (out-of-plane anisotropy) of the thin films by growing different
magnetic materials on different oxide layers
Internship at BCUM-TJ Laboratory, Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Permanent magnets based on nanocomposite (Pr,Dy)2Fe14B/α-Fe magnetic materials coupled
by exchange interactions obtained by mechanical milling and annealing
 (Pr,Dy)2Fe14B , hard magnetic phase preparation by melting of the materials and thermal annealing
 Nanocomposite (Pr,Dy)2Fe14B/α-Fe fabrication by mechanical milling and thermal annealing
 Magnetic and microstructural properties investigation
Oral communications : 2 national and international conferences
Scientific publications: 1 international journal paper
HighTech University – representing Applied Materials with Vincent Ripoche -3 session
DLST UJF Grenoble, France – 40 h lectures+seminars+labs on Newtonian Mechanics
CPP INPG Grenoble, France – 60 h labs Optics
Teaching Internship - high school, Cluj-Napoca, Romania – 10h mechanics and
thermodynamics + 6 h of vacation in high school (thermodynamics)
Presentation of the advances in physics in high school in Cluj Napoca city and surroundings –
7 sessions, in order to motivate students to learn physics and chose a technical course as
Engineer or Physicist
Association of Physicists Students (ASF UBB), Romania – Founder and President
Organization of a contest for young students from college and high school –
* Little inventions contest ( Association TransRiver, UBB, Inspectoratul Scolar Cluj Napoca) – project
manager
* Presentations for the motivation/advise of the Physics 1st year students in their professional project
* Presentation of the advances in physics in schools (UBB Universtiy Inspectoratul Scolar Cluj Napoca)
* participation of the Science Festival (UBB Universtiy Inspectoratul Scolar Cluj Napoca,)
SKILLS:
Material Science & metrology Nano-electronics Magnetism Languages Others
* Metals/oxides/Semiconductor
* Magnetic materials /phase change
materials
* Thin films/ powders/ alloys
* XRD (powders)
* XRR, XRD, XRF, TXRF
(thin films)
*single and multi-cathode sputtering
(PVD), implant, Ion beam etching
* Mechanical milling/arc melting
* Nanofabrication
techniques (ion IBE
and chemical etching
RIE, UV lithograpy)
* Electric transport
* Electron microscopy
*Magnetometry (EHE,
VSM, SQUID, KERR)
*CIPT-CAPRES (electric
transport
measurements)
* Magnetic materials
based devices:
permanent magnets,
MTJ, spin valves
*Romanian
(maternal)
*French
(bilingual)
*English
(scientific)
*Pedagogical
*Presentation skills
* Team/project
Management
* Pascal, C++,
Fortran (basics)
* OriginLab
* KGraph
EDUCATION:
2008 - 2011
2007 - 2008
2003 – 2007
1999 - 2003
Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (France) - Doctoral School of Physics – PhD
Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (France) - Master 2 Research – Material Science
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) – Faculty of Physics – Bachelor of Engineering
Iancu de Hunedoara College, Hunedoara (Romania) – Mathematics & Computer Science –
BAC Diploma
HOBBIES: playing violin (V1) in symphonic orchestra (L’Orchestre & La Fabrique Opéra, L’orchestre de
polygone scientifique) badminton, hiking in the mountains, drawing & oil painting, playing chess
REFERENCES:
Ph.D. Morgan Evans: Morgan_Evans@amat.com
Ph.D. Stefania Pizzini: stefania.pizzini@neel.cnrs.fr
Ph.D. Bernard Dieny : bernard.dieny@cea.fr
Prof. Ph.D. Viorel Pop: viorel@phys.ubbcluj.ro
R&D Engineer Anne Roule: anne.roule@cea.fr

3. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND COMUNICATIONS:
Publications:
Patent
Personal
communications
1) Exchange stiffness in ultrathin perpendicularly-magnetized CoFeB layers determined using spin wave
spectroscopy - T. Devolder, J.-V. Kim, L. Nistor, R. Sousa, B. Rodmacq, and B. Dieny – PRB submitted
(2016)
2) Dot size dependence of magnetic switching in perpendicular dots close to the spin reorientation
transition -Stefanowicz, W., L.E. Nistor, et al., Applied Physics Letters Vol.104, Issue 1 (2014)
3) Field-current phase diagrams of in-plane STTRAM cells with low effective magnetization storage layers -
L. San Emeterio Alvarez, L.E. Nistor, et al – Journal of Applied Physics Volume: 115 Issue: 17 Pages:
17C713 (3 pp.) Published: 7 May ( 2014)
4) MRAM concepts for sub-nanosecond precessional switching and sub-20nm cell scaling - RC Sousa, L
Nistor, et al, Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Conference Dresden-Grenoble (2013)
5) Oscillatory interlayer exchange coupling in MgO tunnel junctions with perpendicular magnetic
anisotropy - L. E. Nistor, et al., PRB 81, 220407(R) (2010)
6) Correlation between perpendicular anisotropy and magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junction, -
Nistor, L.E., B et al., IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 46, 1412-1415 (2010)
7) Spin injection in silicon at zero magnetic field - Grenet, L.E. Nistor, et al., APL94, 032502 (2009)
8) Antiferromagnetic coupling in sputtered MgO tunnel junctions with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy -
Nistor, L.E., et al., IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 45, 3472 (2009)
9) Pt/Co/oxide and oxide/Co/Pt electrodes for perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions -L. E. Nistor, et al -
APL 94, 012512 (2009)
10) Magnetic and structural behaviour of (Nd,Dy)(2)Fe14B/alpha-Fe nanocomposites obtained by
mechanical milling and annealing - Isnard O, Nistor L, et al., JOURNAL OF OPTOELECTRONICS AND
ADVANCED MATERIALS 10, 1819-1822, (2008)
1) Method And Apparatus For Co-Sputtering Multiple Targets - Anantha Subramani, Hanbing Wu, Wei W.
Wang, Ashish Goel, Srinivas Guggilla, Lavinia Nistor – 21th August (2015)
2) Three-layer magnetic element, method for the production of magnetic field sensor, magnetic memory,
and magnetic logic gate using such an element - B. Rodmacq, S. Auffret, B. Dieny and L.E. Nistor - Jun.
09 (2008)
1) Endurance/retention trade off in HfOx and TaOx based RRAM (oral presentation) - M. Azzaz1,2, E.
Vianello2, B. Sklenard2, P. Blaise2, A. Roule2, C.Sabbione2, S. Bernasconi2, C. Charpin2, C. Cagli2, E.
Jalaguier2, S. Jeannot1, S. Denorme1, P. Candelier1, M. Yu3, L.Nistor, C. Fenouillet-Beranger2, L. Perniola –
IMW Conference 2016, Paris, France
2) Measurement of the exchange stiffness in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB layers (oral
presentation) - Devolder, Thibaut; Kim, Joo-Von; Nistor, Lavinia E.; Sousa, Ricardo; Dieny, Bernard –
Intermag - MMM Conference, 2016, San Diego, USA
3) Tunability of thermal stability and switching voltage of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions by
varying free layer thickness (oral presentation) - Xue, Lin1; Ching, Chi 1; Ahn, Jaesoo1; Nistor, Lavinia E.1;
Li, Zhefeng 1;Wang, Rongjun 1; Pakala, Mahendra- Intermag-MMM Conference, 2016, San Diego, USA
4) Field-current phase diagrams of in-plane STTRAM cells with low effective magnetization storage layers
(poster) - L. San Emeterio Alvarez, B. Lacoste, B. Rodmacq, L.E. Nistor, M. Pakala, R. C. Sousa, B. Dieny–
MMM Conference 2013, Denver, Colorado
5) Dot size dependence of magnetic switching in perpendicular dots close to the spin reorientation
transition (oral presentation) - W. Stefanowicz, L.E. Nistor, J. Vogel, W. Kuch, V.-D. Nguyen, G. Gaudin, S.
Auffret, B. Rodmacq, and S. Pizzini - MMM Conference 2013, Denver Colorado
6) Temperature effects in magnetic tunnel junctions and thermally-assisted MRAM concept for sub-20nm
scaling - Sousa, R.C., S. Bandiera, E. Gapihan, L. Lombard, L. San Emeterio Alvarez, L.E. Nistor, L.D. Buda-
Prejbeanu, S. Auffret, L. Vila, I.L. Prejbeanu, B. Rodmacq and B. Dieny (Invited talk): Donostia
International Conference on Nanoscaled Magnetism and Applications, San Sebastian (Spain), Sep.
(2013)
7) MRAM concepts for sub-nanosecond processional switching and sub-20nm cell scaling (oral
presentation) - RC Sousa, S Bandiera, M Marins de Castro, B Lacoste, L San-Emeterio-Alvarez, L Nistor, S
Auffret, U Ebels, C Ducruet, IL Prejbeanu, L Vila, B Rodmacq, B Dieny, Semiconductor Conference
Dresden-Grenoble (2013)
8) Effect of occupation numbers on exchange coupling in low dimensional magnetic nanostructures , D.
Terrade, H. X. Yang, A. Kalitsov, L. Nistor, M. Chshiev, B. Dieny, APS March Meeting (2011)
9) Co/Pt multilayers prepared with a multicathode ENDURA PVD (poster) – L. Nistor., Z. Li, C. Ching, B. Dieny,
R. Wang, M. Subramani, R. Jakkaraju, M. Pakala* – Applied Materials ET conference, Santa Clara

4. (California, USA) 7 of June (2013)
10) Renversement de l'aimantation en fonction de la taille des plots magnétiques avec faible anisotropie
perpendiculaire (poster) - L.E.Nistor, V. Stefanovich, J.Vogel, G. Gaudin, B. Rodmacq, S. Auffret et S.
Pizzini – Colloque Louis Néel, Mars (2013)
11) Low effective demagnetizing field in magnetic tunnel junctions (Oral presentation) Nistor, L.E., et al. -
Intermag Conference, Taipei (Taiwan) Apr. 25-29 (2011)
12) Taking advantage of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in magnetic tunnel junctions (poster) Nistor,
L.E., et al. - Colloque Jacques Cartier « Nanomagnétisme et spintronique », Grenoble (France), Nov. 24-
25(2010)
13) Influence of oxidation conditions on indirect coupling in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (oral
presentation) - Nistor, L.E, et al. - 55th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Altanta (USA),
Nov. 14-18 (2010)
14) Interlayer coupling in tunnel junctions with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (oral presentation) -
Nistor, L.E., et al. - Joint European Magnetic Symposia - Krakov, Poland, 23-28 (2010)
15) Couplage indirect oscillant dans des jonctions tunnel à anisotropie perpendiculaire (oral presentation) -
Nistor, L.E., et al. -Colloque Louis Néel - Albé, France, 31 mars - 2 avril 2010
16) Correlation between magnetoresistance and perpendicular anisotropy in magnetic tunnel junctions
(oral presentation) - Nistor, L.E., et al. 11th Joint MMM-Intermag – Washington DC, USA, january 18-22,
(2010)
17) Influence of oxidation conditions of naturally oxidized MgO barriers in perpendicular magnetic tunnel
junctions (poster- Young Scientist Award) - Nistor, L.E., et al., European School on Magnetism 2009 –
Models in Magnetism: From Basic Aspects to Practical Uses, Timisoara, Romania, September 1-10th (2009)
18) Influence of oxidation conditions of naturally oxidized MgO barriers in perpendicular magnetic tunnel
junctions (poster) - Nistor, L.E., et al., 20th International Colloquium on Magnetic Films and Surfaces,
Berlin, Germany July,( 2009)
19) Anisotropie magnétique perpendiculaire dans des structures Pt/Co/Ox et Ox/Co/Pt (poster) - L.-E. Nistor
et al., Colloque Louis Néel, La Grande Motte, 30 septembre-3 octobre (2008)
20) Nanocomposite (Pr,Dy)2Fe14B/α-Fe magnetic materials coupled by exchange interactions obtained by
mechanical milling and annealing (poster) - Isnard O, Nistor L, et al., Conference IEEE ROMSC 2007, IASI,
ROMANIA, 26-29 May (2007)