The spin on electronics (2011)

You have accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Parkin Stuart, Aeppli Gabriel and Hickey Bryan 2011The spin on electronicsPhil. Trans. R. Soc. A.3693553http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2011.0191SectionYou have accessPrefaceThe spin on electronics Stuart Parkin Stuart Parkin IBM Almaden Research Center, , 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120-6099, USA [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Gabriel Aeppli Gabriel Aeppli London Centre for Nanotechnology, 17–19 Gordon Street, University College London, London WC1H 0AH, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Bryan Hickey Bryan Hickey E C Stoner Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Stuart Parkin Stuart Parkin IBM Almaden Research Center, , 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120-6099, USA [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Gabriel Aeppli Gabriel Aeppli London Centre for Nanotechnology, 17–19 Gordon Street, University College London, London WC1H 0AH, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Bryan Hickey Bryan Hickey E C Stoner Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:28 September 2011https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2011.0191Recent advances in generating, manipulating and detecting spin-polarized electrons promise entirely new classes of spin-based sensor, memory and logical devices, generally referred to as the field of spintronics.These advances are based on recent fundamental discoveries involving spin-polarized current in novel nano-materials, including giant tunnelling magnetoresistance, the spin Hall effect and the excitation of magnetization via the transfer of spin angular momentum from spin-polarized current.The papers in this volume are based on a Discussion Meeting held at the Royal Society, London on 28 and 29 September 2009 and aim to provide an overview of the major advances in the field.FootnotesOne contribution of 10 to a Discussion Meeting Issue ‘The spin on electronics’.This journal is © 2011 The Royal SocietyReferences1Bader S. D.& Parkin S. S. P.. 2010Spintronics. Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 1, 71-88doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-070909-104123 (doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-070909-104123). Crossref, ISI, Google Scholar Next Article VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetailsCited by Kida N (2012) New Optical Route to Magnetic State Control, Physics, 10.1103/Physics.5.41, 5 This Issue28 September 2011Volume 369Issue 1951Discussion Meeting Issue 'The spin on electronics' organized and edited by Stuart Parkin, Gabriel Aeppli and Bryan Hickey Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2011.0191Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:1364-503XOnline ISSN:1471-2962History: Published online28/09/2011Published in print28/09/2011 License:This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society Citations and impact PDF Download Subjectsopticsspintronics