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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

Ferromagnets with high spin polarization are known to be valuable for spintronics--a research field that exploits the spin degree of freedom in information technologies. Recently, antiferromagnets have emerged as promising alternative…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Gautam Gurung , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Qing-Qing Luo Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Emerging altermagnetic materials with vanishing net magnetizations and unique band structures have been envisioned as an ideal electrode to design antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions. Their momentum-resolved spin splitting in band structures…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Boyuan Chi , Leina Jiang , Yu Zhu , Guoqiang Yu , Caihua Wan , Jia Zhang , Xiufeng Han

Altermagnetic (AM) materials have recently attracted significant interest due to the non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting of their electronic band structure which may be useful for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. So far,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Kartik Samanta , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are the key building blocks of high-performance spintronic devices. While conventional MTJs rely on ferromagnetic (FM) materials, employing antiferromagnetic (AFM) compounds can significantly increase…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics, where an AFM N\'eel vector is used as a state variable. Efficient electric control and detection of the N\'eel vector are critical for spintronic applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-07 Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key components of spintronic devices, such as magnetic random-access memories. Normally, MTJs consist of two ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes separated by an insulating barrier layer. Their key functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-06 Kartik Samanta , Yuan-Yuan Jiang , Tula R. Paudel , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Using first-principles quantum-transport calculations, we investigate spin-dependent electronic and transport properties of antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions (AFMTJs) that consist of (110)-oriented antiferromagnetic (AFM) metal RuO$_{2}$…

Altermagnetism, characterized by zero net magnetization and symmetry-protected spin-split band structures, has recently emerged as a promising platform for spintronics. In altermagnetic tunnel junctions (AMTJs), the suppression of tunneling…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Xingyue Yang , Shibo Fang , Zongmeng Yang , Pin Ho , Jing Lu , Yee Sin Ang

Collinear antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials have unique promise of no stray fields, display ultrafast dynamics, and being robust against perturbation filed which motivates the extensive research of antiferromagnetic spintronics. However,…

Pure spin currents carry information in quantum spintronics and could play an essential role in the next generation low-energy-consumption electronics. Here we theoretically predict that the magnetic field can induce a quantum spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Antiferromagnetic (AF) spintronics is merit on ultra-high operator speed and stability in the presence of magnetic field. To fully use the merit, the device should be pure rather than hybrid with ferromagnet or ferrimagnet. For the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Xingtao Jia , Hui-Min Tang , Shi-Zhuo Wan

Spin-polarized currents play a key role in spintronics. Recently, it has been found that antiferromagnets with a non-spin-degenerate band structure can efficiently spin-polarize electric currents, even though their net magnetization is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-20 Gautam Gurung , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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

The utilization of two-dimensional (2D) materials in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has shown excellent performance and rich physics. As for 2D antiferromagnets, the magnetic moments in different layers respond asynchronously and can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Xiaolin Ren , Ruizi Liu , Yiyang Zhang , Yuting Liu , Xuezhao Wu , Kun Qian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Qiming Shao

Antiferromagnetic materials could represent the future of spintronic applications thanks to the numerous interesting features they combine: they are robust against perturbation due to magnetic fields, produce no stray fields, display…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-20 V. Baltz , A. Manchon , M. Tsoi , T. Moriyama , T. Ono , Y. Tserkovnyak

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are crucial components in high-performance spintronic devices. Traditional MTJs rely on ferromagnetic (FM) materials but significant improvements in speed and packing density could be enabled by exploiting…

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Soho Shim , M. Mehraeen , Joseph Sklenar , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Nadya Mason

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) based on ferromagnets are canonical devices in spintronics, with wide-ranging applications in data storage, computing, and sensing. They simultaneously exhibit mechanisms for electrical detection of magnetic…

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