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A new magnetic logic overcomes the major limitations of field programmable gate arrays while having a 50% smaller unit cell than conventional designs utilizing magnetic tunnel junctions with one Heusler alloy electrode. These show positive…

The interplay between spin and charge transport in electrically and magnetically inhomogeneous semiconductor systems is investigated theoretically. In particular, the theory of spin-polarized bipolar transport in magnetic p-n junctions is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jaroslav Fabian , Igor Zutic , S. Das Sarma

In semiconductor spintronic devices, the semiconductor is usually lightly doped and nondegenerate, and moderate electric fields can dominate the carrier motion. We recently derived a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

Injecting spins into a semiconductor channel and transforming the spin information into a significant electrical output signal is a long standing problem in spintronics. Actually, this is the prerequisite of several concepts of spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Fert , J. -M. George , H. Jaffres , R. Mattana

Antiferromagnets offer an attractive platform for spintronics due to their absence of net magnetization and ultrafast spin dynamics, yet their intrinsically spin-compensated electronic structure has traditionally limited their active role…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Joel Bobadilla , Alberto Camjayi

We propose a spintronic device to generate spin polarization in a mesoscopic region by purely electric means. We show that the spin Hall effect in combination with the stirring effect are sufficient to induce measurable spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Yu. V. Pershin , N. A. Sinitsyn , A. Kogan , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

This article aims at giving a general presentation of spintronics, an important field of research developing today along many new directions in physics of condensed matter. We tried to present simply the physical phenomena involved in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Albert Fert , Frédéric Nguyen van Dau

Spintronics, a technology harnessing electron spin for information transmission, offers a promising avenue to surpass the limitations of conventional electronic devices. While the spin directly interacts with the magnetic field, its control…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Run-Wu Zhang , Chaoxi Cui , Runze Li , Jingyi Duan , Lei Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

Semiclassical theories of electron and spin transport in metallic magnetic structures are reviewed with emphasis on the role of disorder and electronic band structures in the current perpendicular to the interface plane (CPP) transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Yuli V. Nazarov , Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Arne Brataas , Ke Xia , Paul J. Kelly

Bio-inspired hardware holds the promise of low-energy, intelligent and highly adaptable computing systems. Applications span from automatic classification for big data management, through unmanned vehicle control, to control for bio-medical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz , Mark D. Stiles

Conventional computer electronics creates a dichotomy between how information is processed and how it is stored. Silicon chips process information by controlling the flow of charge through a network of logic gates. This information is then…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-27 A. Chernyshov , M. Overby , X. Liu , J. K. Furdyna , Y. Lyanda-Geller , L. P. Rokhinson

Optical orientation is a highly efficient tool for the generation of nonequilibrium spin polarization in semiconductors. Combined with spin-polarized transport it offers new functionalities for conventional electronic devices, such as pn…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-04 Jaroslav Fabian , Igor Zutic

Spintronic devices as alternatives to traditional semiconductor-based electronic devices attract considerable interest as they offer zero quiescent power, built-in memory, scalability, and reconfigurability. To realize spintronic logic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-04 Seung-heon Chris Baek , Kyung-Woong Park , Deok-Sin Kil , Kyung-Jin Lee , Byong-Guk Park

Spin-based computing is emerging as a powerful approach for energy-efficient and high-performance solutions to future data processing hardware. Spintronic devices function by electrically manipulating the collective dynamics of the electron…

Spintronics is the ability of injecting, manipulating and detecting electron spins into solid state systems. Molecular-electronics investigates the possibility of making electronic devices using organic molecules. Traditionally these two…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Sanvito , Alexandre Reily Rocha

With a view to electrical spin manipulation and quantum computing applications, recent significant attention has been devoted to semiconductor hole systems, which have very strong spin-orbit interactions. However, experimentally measuring,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Hong Liu , Elizabeth Marcellina , Alexander R. Hamilton , Dimitrie Culcer

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

We treat the spin injection and extraction via a ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor Schottky barrier as a quantum scattering problem. This enables the theory to explain a number of phenomena involving spin-dependent current through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 L. Cywinski , H. Dery , P. Dalal , L. J. Sham

Magnons, bosonic quasiparticles carrying angular momentum, can flow through insulators for information transmission with minimal power dissipation. However, it remains challenging to develop a magnon-based logic due to the lack of efficient…

A one dimensional theory of lateral spin-polarized transport is derived from the two dimensional flow in the vertical cross section of a stack of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic layers. This takes into account the influence of the lead on…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 H. Dery , L. Cywinski , L. J. Sham