Description
Book SynopsisSpintronics (short for spin electronics, or spin transport electronics) exploits both the intrinsic spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment, in addition to its fundamental electronic charge, in solid-state devices.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors
Series Preface
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of magnetoresistance effects
K. Takanashi
Chapter 2: Spintronics Materials with High Spin Polarization
Y.K. Takahashi and K. Hono
Chapter 3: Spin current
Eijih Saitoh
Chapter 4: Spin Hall effect and inverse spin Hall effect
Shuichi Murakami
Chapter 5: Spin torque (domain wall drive, magnetization reversal)
Akinobu Yamaguchi
Chapter 6: Spin Pumping
Matthias Althammer, Mathias Weiler, Hans Huebl, and Sebastian T.B.Goennenwein
Chapter 7: Spin Seebeck effect
Jiang Xiao
Chapter8: Spin conversion at magnetic interfaces
Tomoyasu Taniyama
Chapter 9: Carbon-based Spintronics
Masashi Shiraishi
Chapter 10: Silicon spintronics for next-generation devices
Kohei Hamaya
Chapter 11: Electric-field control of magnetism in ferromagnetic semiconductors
Tomoteru Fukumura
Chapter 12: Quantum information processing using nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond
Norikazu Mizuochi
Chapter 13: Ultrafast light-induced spin reversal in amorphous rare earth-transition metal alloy films
Arata Sukamoto
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