Spintronics Notes

Spintronics Basics

  • Ref
    ...Two recent experiments represent an important step towards electrical spin injection at room temperature. In the first, Klaus Ploog and co-workers at the Paul Drude Institute in Berlin have demonstrated that room-temperature spin injection is possible ( H J Zhu et al. 2001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 016601 ). Meanwhile Vincent LaBella and co-workers at the University of Arkansas in the US have shown that the quality of semiconductor surfaces plays a vital role in spin injection (V LaBella et al. 2001 Science 292 1518). ...
  • A review paper:
    Evgeny Y Tsymbal1, Oleg N Mryasov2 and Patrick R LeClair3 Spin-dependent tunnelling in magnetic tunnel junctions J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15 R109-R142 2003