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Altermagnets are a novel class of fully spin-compensated magnetic materials that nevertheless have spin-split electronic bands, offering novel perspectives for spintronics applications. Based on a rigorous analysis of altermagnetic…

A diode, a device allowing unidirectional signal transmission, is a fundamental element of logic structures and lies in the heart of modern information systems. Spin wave or magnon, representing a collective quasi-particle excitation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-06 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Ruqian Wu , Jiang Xiao

Torsional oscillations of a free-standing semiconductor beam are shown to cause spin-dependent oscillating potentials that spin-polarize an applied charge current in the presence of intentional or disorder scattering potentials. We propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-29 Alexey A. Kovalev , Liviu P. Zârbo , Y. Tserkovnyak , G. E. W. Bauer , Jairo Sinova

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

Current-voltage characteristics of a spintromechanical device, in which spin-polarized electrons tunnel between magnetic leads with anti-parallel magnetization through a single level movable quantum dot, are calculated. New exchange- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Olya A. Ilinskaya , Danko Radic , Hee Chul Park , Ilya V. Krive , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

We review the use of hybrid thin films composed of superconductors and ferromagnets for creating non-reciprocal electronic components and self-biased detectors of electromagnetic radiation. We begin by introducing the theory behind these…

We investigate the minimal requirements that induce a nonreciprocal response to temperature differences in a mesoscopic electronic conductor. We identify two distinct mechanisms involved in electron-electron interactions, namely inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 José Balduque , Rafael Sánchez

Spin-orbit torque is a promising mechanism for writing magnetic memories, while field-effect transistors are the gold-standard device for logic operation. The spin-orbit torque field effect transistor (SOTFET) is a proposed device that…

Noncollinear antiferromagnets, such as Mn$_3$Sn and Mn$_3$Ir, were recently shown to be analogous to ferromagnets in that they have a large anomalous Hall effect. Here we show that these materials are similar to ferromagnets in another…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Jakub Zelezny , Yang Zhang , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan

Spintronic and nanomagnetic devices often derive their functionality from layers of different materials and the interfaces between them. This is especially true for synthetic antiferromagnets - two or more ferromagnetic layers that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 R. A. Duine , Kyung-Jin Lee , Stuart S. P. Parkin , M. D. Stiles

There is currently much interest in materials and structures that provide coupled ferroelectric and ferromagnetic responses, with a long-term goal of developing new memories and spintronic logic elements. Within the field there is a focus…

The Coulomb interaction between electrons of opposite spin orientations in a metal or in a doped semiconductor results in a negative off-diagonal component of the electrical resistivity matrix -- the so-called "spin-drag resistivity". It is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Vignale

Ferromagnetic single electron transistors with Al islands and orthogonal ferromagnetic leads (Co) are fabricated using ebeam lithography followed by shadow evaporation techniques. I-V characteristics exhibit typical single electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dawei Wang , Jia G. Lu

Spintronic diodes are emerging as disruptive candidates for impacting several technological applications ranging from the Internet of Things to Artificial Intelligence. In this letter, an overview of the recent achievements on spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Giovanni Finocchio , Riccardo Tomasello , Bin Fang , Anna Giordano , Vito Puliafito , Mario Carpentieri , Zhongming Zeng

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

The ability to design passive structures that perform different operations on different electromagnetic fields is key to many technologies, from beam-steering to optical computing. While many techniques have been developed to optimise…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 J. R. Capers , S. J. Boyes , A. P. Hibbins , S. A. R. Horsley

Nonreciprocal charge transport in solids, where resistance is different between rightward and leftward currents, is a key function of rectifying devices in the modern electronics, as exemplified by $p$-$n$ semiconductor junctions. Recently,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 M. Kondo , M. Kimata , M. Ochi , T. Kaneko , K. Kuroki , K. Sudo , S. Sakaguchi , H. Murakawa , N. Hanasaki , H. Sakai

A particle that can be used to create an active magnetic metamaterial has been designed using an FET transistor loaded in its gate by a conducting ring and in its source by a parallel resonance circuit. The design procedure is discussed and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-10 Lukas Jelinek , Jan Machac

We apply an analysis of time-dependent spin-polarized current in a semiconductor channel at room temperature to establish how the magnetization configuration and dynamics of three ferromagnetic terminals, two of them biased and third…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-20 L. Cywinski , H. Dery , L. J. Sham

From first-principles calculations, we predict that transition metal (TM) atom doped silicon nanowires have a half-metallic ground state. They are insulators for one spin-direction, but show metallic properties for the opposite spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Engin Durgun , Deniz Cakir , Nurten Akman , Salim Ciraci