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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

For the last years spin effects in semiconductors have been of great interest not only in the context of solid state physics, but also for their potential usage in technology. In this paper we give a short review of spintronic materials, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-07 Z. Wilamowski , A. Werpachowska

Recent progress in physics on spin dependent transport in magnetic nanostructures is reviewed. Special attention is paid on the spin accumulation and spin current caused by spin injection into non-magnetic metals and semiconductors and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Maekawa

In this paper we review the recent field of organic spintronics, where organic materials are applied as a medium to transport and control spin-polarized signals. The contacts for injecting and detecting spins are formed by metals, oxides,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 W. J. M. Naber , S. Faez , W. G. van der Wiel

In this series of lectures, we discuss the basic theoretical concepts of magnonics and spintronics. We first briefly recall the relevant topics from quantum mechanics, electrodynamics of continuous media, and basic theory of magnetism. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 M. Mazanov , V. A. Shklovskij

Spintronics, a transformative field of research, leverages the spin of electron to revolutionize electronic devices, offering significant advantages over traditional charge-based systems. This chapter highlights the critical role of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 A. Sud , A. Kumar , M. Cubukcu

We review basic computational techniques for simulations of various magnetic properties of solids. Several applications to compute magnetic anisotropy energy, spin wave spectra, magnetic susceptibilities and temperature dependent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Savrasov , A. Toropova , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein , V. Antropov , G. Kotliar

This focused issue attempts to provide a comprehensive introduction into the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Apart from the brief overview below, it features five review articles. The intention is to cover in a coherent and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-31 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Manchon , X. Marti , J. Wunderlich , C. Felser

The ever-increasing amount of data from ubiquitous smart devices fosters data-centric and cognitive algorithms. Traditional digital computer systems have separate logic and memory units, resulting in a huge delay and energy cost for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Qiming Shao , Zhongrui Wang , Yan Zhou , Shunsuke Fukami , Damien Querlioz , Leon O. Chua

I shortly describe semi-classical models of spinning electron and list a number of theoretical issues where these models turn out to be useful, see arXiv:1710.07135 for details. Then I discuss the possibility to extend the range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Alexei A. Deriglazov

The electron spin transport in condensed matter, Spintronics, is a subject of rapidly growing interest both scientifically and from the point of view of applications to modern and future electronics. In many cases the electron spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Israel D. Vagner

Semiclassical methods are extremely valuable in the study of transport and thermodynamical properties of ballistic microstructures. By expressing the conductance in terms of classical trajectories, we demonstrate that quantum interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodolfo A. Jalabert

Development of future sensor, memory, and computing nanodevices based on novel physical concepts is one of the significant research endeavors in solid-state research. The field of spintronics is one such promising area of nanoelectronics…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Rahul Mishra , Hyunsoo Yang

We review several proposed spintronic devices that can provide new functionality or improve available functions of electronic devices. In particular, we discuss a high mobility field effect spin transistor, an all-metal spin transistor, and…

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

Magnons, as the most elementary excitations of magnetic materials, have recently emerged as a prominent tool in electrical and thermal manipulation and transport of spin, and magnonics as a field is considered as one of the pillars of…

Over the past decade a large family of spintronic devices have been proposed as candidates for replacing CMOS for future digital logic circuits. Using the recently developed Modular Approach framework, we investigate and identify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Samiran Ganguly , Kerem Yunus Camsari , Supriyo Datta

Spin Hall effects interconvert spin- and charge currents due to spin-orbit interaction, which enables convenient electrical generation and detection of diffusive spin currents and even collective spin excitations in magnetic solids. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch , Wei Zhang , Wanjun Jiang , Axel Hoffmann

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

Atomistic modelling of magnetic materials provides unprecedented detail about the underlying physical processes that govern their macroscopic properties, and allows the simulation of complex effects such as surface anisotropy, ultrafast…

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-03 Tomasz Dietl