Lecture Notes on Semiconductor Spintronics
Abstract
These informal lecture notes describe the progress in semiconductor spintronics in a historic perspective as well as in a comparison to achievements of spintronics of ferromagnetic metals. After outlining motivations behind spintronic research, selected results of investigations on three groups of materials are presented. These include non-magnetic semiconductors, hybrid structures involving semiconductors and ferromagnetic metals, and diluted magnetic semiconductors either in paramagnetic or ferromagnetic phase. Particular attention is paid to the hole-controlled ferromagnetic systems whose thermodynamic, micromagnetic, transport, and optical properties are described in detail together with relevant theoretical models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0801.0145,
title = {Lecture Notes on Semiconductor Spintronics},
author = {Tomasz Dietl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0145},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Proc. 43rd Winter School in Schladming, Austria, Febr. 2005, "Modern Aspects of Spin Physics", ed. J. Fabian - Lecture Notes, vol. 712 (springer, Berlin, 2007) pp. 1-46, 15 figures