Silicene spintronics: Fe(111)/silicene system for efficient spin injection

Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics

Spintronics: Taming spin currents.

T aking advantage of the fact that electrons, photons and some elementary excitations have an intrinsic angular momentum (spin) offers a fascinating opportunity to study materials properties. Introducing a net imbalance between spins pointing in different directions (say, 'up' and 'down') is one way to probe phenomena including spin–orbit and hyperfine coupling, pairing of unconventional superc...

Spin-chemistry concepts for spintronics scientists

Spin chemistry and spintronics developed independently and with different terminology. Until now, the interaction between the two fields has been very limited. In this review, we compile the two "languages" in an effort to enhance communication. We expect that knowledge of spin chemistry will accelerate progress in spintronics.

8 Spintronics — Spin - Based Electronics

Spintronics is an acronym for a spin transport electronics and was originally used as a name for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program. In 1994, DARPA started to develop magnetic field sensors and memory based on the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect and spindependent tunneling. The overall goal for the Spintronics program was to create a new generation of electronic ...

Spin-Currents and Spin-Pumping Forces for Spintronics

A general definition of the Spintronics concept of spin-pumping is proposed as generalized forces conjugated to the spin degrees of freedom in the framework of the theory of mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics. It is shown that at least three different kinds of spin-pumping forces and associated spin-currents can be defined in the most simple spintronics system: the Ferromagnetic/Non-Ferr...