Nan Mo    [ monan@lamar.colostate.edu ]

Nan Mo, previously named Shenglin Duan, was born in Jiangxi province, P. R. China on December 20, 1970. He was a college student in radiation medicine in the Medical School of Soochow University (China) from 1987 to 1988. He obtained the B.S. degree in metrology in 1993 from the China Jiliang University, where he was awarded the Best Student Leader and/or the 2nd Rank Scholarships every year and the Best Graduated Student in 1993. He obtained the Master's degree in quantum metrology in 1996 from the National Institute of Metrology P. R. China (NIM), where he studied the frequency stabilized lasers and the laser interferometers.

He joined the Mass Standard Laboratory, Mechanical Metrology Division, NIM in 1996, where he worked on the calibrations, pattern approvals, and intercomparisons of mass standards and balances. He was an assistant professor and metrological supervisor. He was the principal investigator of the research projects "Gauge Laser Interferometer without Wringing on a Platen", "Technical Enhancements of Mass Standard Laboratory", and "Establishment of National Primary Density Standard by Means of Absolute Measurement" that was interrupted by admission to Colorado State University (CSU). He was a key member of the research projects "Establishment of the 1g~20kg Class E1 Mass Standards with density of (8.000±0.005) g/cm³" and CCM (Consultative Committee of Mass and Related Quantities) key intercomparisons of 1kg (1996) and multiples and submultiples of 1 kg (1998) mass standards. He was the lecturer for the mass sections of four Asia-pacific workshops of force and mass (APFM) from 1997 to 2000. He was the only lecturer in the national workshop of "Mass Measurements and Uncertainty Evaluations" in 2001. Based on his five-year efforts, he was awarded the Best Youth Researcher in 2001.

He joined Carl E. Patton's Magnetics group as a Ph. D. graduate student at CSU, Fort Collins, Colorado in 2001. He made the high precision measurements on the microwave effective linewidth to resolve the physical origins and intrinsic limits of off-resonance losses, and developed a full theory of classical spin wave excitation and scattering, based on quaternion analysis and operator algebra, in polycrystalline ferrites. Currently, he is focusing on the magnetic field-dependent effective linewidth in ferromagnetic metal films and constructing a prototype ferromagnetic resonance spectrometer system for technology transfer to the University of Idaho. He is also interested in the non-reciprocal phenomena and the nonlinear spin dynamics in magnetic films.

He has co-authored two books, "Verifications and Maintenance of Balances" (China Metrology Publishing House, 2000) and "Uncertainty Evaluations and Expressions of Mass and Density Measurements" (vice-editor prior to 2001, China Metrology Publishing House, 2002). The list of representative articles comprises:

1. N. Mo, Y. Y. Song, and C. E. Patton, "High-field microwave effective linewidth in polycrystalline ferrites: Physical origins and intrinsic limits," J. Appl. Phys. 97, 093901 (2005).
2. N. Mo, J. Ding, R. Yang, and J. Liu, "Mass Calibrations of National Secondary Standards in China," CCM/APMF 2000 Proceedings (Japan), 2000. Awarded Best Paper (CCM/APMF).
3. N. Mo and Q. Luo, "Mass Traceability Between Neighboring Classes," Mod. Meas. Test, 7(3), 41(1999).