Antonio Costa [start]

Associate Professor
Instituto de Física
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Niterói, RJ
Brazil

Research Interests

Theory of spin excitations and magnetization dynamics in transition metal nanostructures.
- In particular, the influence of spin-orbit coupling on such excitations.
Spin dependent transport in nanostructures.
Generation of pure spin current by out of equilibrium magnetization.
Spin-charge signals interconversion via spin-Hall and inverse spin-Hall effects.
Spin relaxation in the presence of electron-phonon coupling and disorder.