About the Book
Spintronics Handbook, Second Edition offers an update on the single most comprehensive survey of the two intertwined fields of spintronics and magnetism, covering the diverse array of materials and structures, including silicon, organic semiconductors, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and engineered nanostructures. It focuses on seminal pioneering work, together with the latest in cutting-edge advances, notably extended discussion of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene, topological insulators, skyrmions, and molecular spintronics. The main sections cover physical phenomena, spin-dependent tunneling, control of spin and magnetism in semiconductors, and spin-based applications.
Features:
Presents the most comprehensive reference text for the overlapping fields of spintronics (spin transport) and
magnetism.
Covers the full spectrum of materials and structures, from silicon and organic semiconductors to carbon nanotubes, graphene, and engineered nanostructures.
Extends coverage of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene, including molybdenum disulfide and study of their spin relaxation mechanisms
Includes new dedicated chapters on cutting-edge topics such as spin-orbit torques, topological insulators, half metals, complex oxide materials and skyrmions.
Discusses important emerging areas of spintronics with superconductors, spin-wave spintronics, benchmarking of spintronics devices, and theory and experimental approaches to molecular spintronics.
Evgeny Tsymbal's research is focused on computational materials science aiming at the understanding of fundamental properties of advanced ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanostructures and materials relevant to nanoelectronics and spintronics. He is a George Holmes University Distinguished Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Director of the UNL’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), and Director of the multi-institutional Center for NanoFerroic Devices (CNFD).
Igor Žutić received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Minnesota. His work spans a range of topics from high-temperature superconductors and ferromagnetism that can get stronger as the temperature is increased, to prediction of various spin-based devices. He is a recipient of 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2005 National Research Council/American Society for Engineering Education Postdoctoral Research Award, and the National Research Council Fellowship (2003-2005). His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Energy, and the Airforce Office of Scientific Research.
Table of Contents:
Volume 3. Nanoscale Spintronics and Applications
Section VI. Spin Transport and Magnetism at the Nanoscale
1. Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Matthias Bode
2. Point Contact Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy
Boris E. Nadgorny
3. Ballistic Spin Transport
Bernard Doudin and N. T. Kemp
4. Graphene Spintronics
Csaba Józsa and Bart J. van Wees
5. Spintronics in 2D Materials
Wei Han and Ronald Kawakami
6. Magnetism and Transport in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Joaquín Fernández Rossier and R. Aguado
7. Spin Transport in Hybrid Nanostructures
Saburo Takahashi and Sadamichi Maekawa
8. Spin Caloritronics
Rafael Ramos and Eiji Saitoh
9. Nonlocal Spin Valves in Metallic Nanostructures
Yoshichika Otani, Takashi Kimura, Yasuhiro Niimi, and Hiroshi Idzuchi
10. Magnetic Skyrmions on Discrete Lattices
Elena Y. Vedmedenko and Ronald Wiesendanger
11. Molecular Spintronics
Stefano Sanvito
Section VII. Applications
12. Magnetoresistive Sensors based on Magnetic Tunneling Junctions
Gang Xiao
13. Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM)
Johan Åkerman
14. Emerging Spintronic Memories
Stuart Parkin, Masamitsu Hayashi, Luc Thomas, Xin Jiang, Rai Moriya, and William Gallagher
15. GMR Spin-Valve Biosensors
Jung-Rok Lee, Richard S. Gaster, Drew A. Hall, and Shan X. Wang
16. Semiconductor Spin-Lasers
Igor Žutić, Jeongsu Lee, Christian Gøthgen, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Gaofeng Xu, Guilherme M. Sipahi, and Nils C. Gerhardt
17. Spin Transport and Magnetism in Electronic Systems
Hanan Dery
18. Spin Wave Logic Devices
Alexander Khitun and llya Krivorotov
About the Author :
Evgeny Y. Tsymbal is a George Holmes University Distinguished Professor
at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nebraska-
Lincoln (UNL), and Director of the UNL’ s Materials Research Science and
Engineering Center (MRSEC). He joined UNL in 2002 as an Associate
Professor, was promoted to a Full Professor with Tenure in 2005 and named
a Charles Bessey Professor of Physics in 2009 and George Holmes University
Distinguished Professor in 2013. Prior to his appointment at UNL, he was a
research scientist at University of Oxford, United Kingdom, a research fellow
of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Research Center-Ju lich,
Germany, and a research scientist at the Russian Research Center “ Kurchatov
Institute,” Moscow. Evgeny Tsymbal’ s research is focused on computational
materials science aiming at the understanding of fundamental properties of
advanced ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanostructures and materials relevant
to nanoelectronics and spintronics. He has published over 230 papers,
review articles, and book chapters and presented over 180 invited presentations
in the areas of spin transport, magnetoresistive phenomena, nanoscale magnetism,
complex oxide heterostructures, interface magnetoelectric phenomena,
and ferroelectric tunnel junctions. Evgeny Tsymbal is a fellow of the American
Physical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, and a recipient of the
UNL’ s College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Research and Creativity Award
(ORCA). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation,
Semiconductor Research Corporation, Office of Naval Research, Department of
Energy, Seagate Technology, and the W. M. Keck Foundation.
Igor Žutić received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of
Minnesota, after undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
He was a postdoc at the University of Maryland and the Naval Research Lab.
In 2005 he joined the State University of New York at Buffalo as an Assistant
Professor of Physics and got promoted to an Associate Professor in 2009 and
to a Full Professor in 2013. He proposed and chaired Spintronics 2001:
International Conference on Novel Aspects of Spin-Polarized Transport
and Spin Dynamics, at Washington DC. Work with his collaborators spans a
range of topics from high-temperature superconductors, Majorana fermions,
proximity effects, van der Waals materials, and unconventional magnetism,
to the prediction and experimental realization of spin-based devices that are
not limited to magnetoresistance. He has published over 100 refereed articles
and given over 150 invited presentations on spin transport, magnetism, spintronics,
and superconductivity. Igor Ž utić is a recipient of the 2006 National
Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2005 National Research Council/
American Society for Engineering Education Postdoctoral Research Award,
and the National Research Council Fellowship (2003– 2005). His research is
supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research,
the Department of Energy, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency,
and the Airforce Office of Scientific Research. He is a fellow of the American
Physical Society.
