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We prepare the high quality epitaxial MgO(001)[100]/Pt(001)[100]/NiO(001)[100]/FeNi/SiO2 films to investigate the spin transport in the NiO antiferromagnetic insulator. The ferromagnetic resonance measurements of the FeNi under a spin…

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

Spin-electronic devices are poised to become part of mainstream microelectronic technology .Downsizing them, however, faces the intrinsic difficulty that as ferromagnets become smaller, it becomes more difficult to stabilize their magnetic…

The integration of the spin degree of freedom in charge-based electronic devices has revolutionised both sensing and memory capability in microelectronics. Further development in spintronic devices requires electrical manipulation of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Wenjing Yan , Oihana Txoperena , Roger Llopis , Hanan Dery , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

The influence of acceleration and rotation on spintronic applications is theoretically investigated. In our formulation, considering a Dirac particle in a non-inertial frame, different spin related aspects are studied. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Debashree Chowdhury , B. Basu

Devices based on a pure spin current (a flow of spin angular momentum) have been attracting increasing attention as key ingredients for low-dissipation electronics. To integrate such spintronics devices into charge-based technologies, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Kohei Fujiwara , Yasuhiro Fukuma , Jobu Matsuno , Hiroshi Idzuchi , Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani , Hidenori Takagi

First principles calculations show that electric fields applied to ferromagnets generate spin currents flowing perpendicularly to the electric field. Reduced symmetry in these ferromagnets enables a wide variety of such spin currents.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 V. P. Amin , Junwen Li , M. D. Stiles , P. M. Haney

The concept of low-voltage depletion and accumulation of electron charge in semiconductors, utilized in field-effect transistors (FETs), is one of the cornerstones of current information processing technologies. Spintronics which is based…

Precessing ferromagnets are predicted to inject a spin current into adjacent conductors via Ohmic contacts, irrespective of a conductance mismatch with, for example, doped semiconductors. This opens the way to create a pure spin source spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Bertrand I. Halperin

Existence of spinons is the defining property of quantum spin liquids. These exotic excitations have (fractionalized) spin quantum number and no electric charge, and have been proposed to form Fermi surfaces in the recently discovered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-20 Chui-Zhen Chen , Qing-feng Sun , Fa Wang , X. C. Xie

Spin-orbit coupling enables charge currents to give rise to spin currents and vice versa, which has applications in non-volatile magnetic memories, miniature microwave oscillators, thermoelectric converters and Terahertz devices. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Angie Davidson , Vivek P. Amin , Wafa S. Aljuaid , Paul M. Haney , Xin Fan

Spintronics aims to utilize the spin degree of freedom for energy-efficient, non-volatile memory and logic devices. In this research update, we review state-of-the-art developments and new directions in charge- and spin-based memory/logic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-07 Guang Yang , Chiara Ciccarelli , Jason W. A. Robinson

Spin transport typically relies on direct manipulation of the spin degree of freedom via magnetic fields, spin-orbit coupling, or engineered spin-dependent potentials. We show theoretically that directional spin currents can arise in a…

Ferromagnets are known to support spin-polarized currents that control various spin-dependent transport phenomena useful for spintronics. On the contrary, fully compensated antiferromagnets are expected to support only globally spin-neutral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Ding-Fu Shao , Yuan-Yuan Jiang , Jun Ding , Shu-Hui Zhang , Zi-An Wang , Rui-Chun Xiao , Gautam Gurung , W. J. Lu , Y. P. Sun , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by limited material choices and short spin-coherence lengths.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Ziye Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xunkai Duan , Zhou Cui , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

The demand for compact, high-speed and energy-saving circuitry urges higher efficiency of spintronic devices that can offer a viable alternative for the current electronics. The route towards this goal suggests implementing two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Talieh S. Ghiasi , Alexey A. Kaverzin , Avalon H. Dismukes , Dennis K. de Wal , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

Systems of atoms or molecules can possess nonzero total spins that can be employed in spintronics, for instance for creating memory devices, which requires to be able to efficiently regulate spin directions. This article presents some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

A spin valve is a prototype of spin-based electronic devices found on ferromagnets, in which an antiferromagnet plays a supporting role. Recent findings in antiferromagnetic spintronics show that an antiferromagnetic order in single-phase…

Over the last two decades, the new branch of spintronics, i.e., semiconductor spintronics, has gained more attention because it integrates the characteristics of conventional semiconductors, such as optical bandgap and charge carriers,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-22 Pankaj Bhardwaj , Jarnail Singh , Vikram Verma , Ravi Kumar