Tsymbal E.Y., Žutić I. (Eds.) Handbook of Spin Transport and Magnetism

CRC Press, 2012. — 777 p.This Handbook provides a comprehensive, balanced account of the state of the art in the field known as spin electronics or spintronics. It reveals how key phenomena first discovered in one class of materials, such as spin injection in metals, have been revisited decades later in other materials systems, including silicon, organic semiconductors, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and carefully engineered nanostructures. In the past several decades, the research on spin transport and magnetism has led to remarkable scientific and technological breakthroughs, including Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg’s Nobel Prize-winning discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in magnetic metallic multilayers. The techniques and materials of spintronics have rapidly evolved in recent years, leading to vast improvements in hard drive storage and magnetic sensing. With extensive cross-references between chapters, this seminal handbook provides a complete guide to spin transport and magnetism across various classes of materials and structures. The first section of the book offers a historical and personal perspective of the field written by Nobel Prize laureate Albert Fert. The second section addresses physical phenomena, such as GMR, in hybrid structures of ferromagnetic and normal metals. The third section discusses recent developments in spin-dependent tunneling, including magnetic tunnel junctions with ferroelectric barriers. In the fourth section, the contributors look at how to control spin and magnetism in semiconductors. In the fifth section, they examine phenomena typically found in nanostructures made from metals, superconductors, molecular magnets, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, and graphene. The final section covers novel spin-based applications, including advanced magnetic sensors, nonvolatile magnetoresistive random access memory, and semiconductor spin-lasers.Historical Overview: From Electron Transport in Magnetic Materials to Spintronics
Spin Transport and Magnetism in Magnetic Metallic Multilayers
Basics of Nano-Thin Film Magnetism
Micro magnetism as a Prototype for Complexity
Giant Magnetoresistance: Experiment
Giant Magnetoresistance: Theory
Spin Injection, Accumulation, and Relaxation in Metals
Spin Torque Effects in Magnetic Systems: Experiment
Spin Torque Effects in Magnetic Systems: Theory
Hot Carrier Spin Transport in Ferromagnetic Metals
Spin Transport and Magnetism in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Tunneling Magnetoresistance: Experiment (Non-MgO Magnetic Tunnel Junctions)
Tunneling Magnetoresistance: Experiment (MgO Magnetic Tunnel Junctions)
Tunneling Magnetoresistance: Theory
Spin-Filter Tunneling
Spin Torques in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions
Spin Transport and Magnetism in Semiconductors
Spin Relaxation and Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors
Electrical Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors
Spin-Polarized Ballistic Hot-Electron Injection and Detection in Hybrid Metal-Semiconductor Devices
III—V Magnetic Semiconductors
Magnetism of Dilute Oxides
Tunneling Magnetoresistance and Spin Transfer with (Ga,Mn) As
Spin Transport in Organic Semiconductors
Spin Transport in Ferromagnet/lII-V Semiconductor Heterostructures
Spin Polarization by Current
Anomalous and Spin-Injection Hall Effects
Spin Transport and Magnetism at the Nanoscale
Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Point Contact Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy
Ballistic Spin Transport
Graphene Spintronics
Magnetism and Transport in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Spin Transport in Hybrid Nanostructures
Nonlocal Spin Valves in Metallic Nanostructures
Molecular Spintronics
Applications
Magnetoresistive Sensors Based on Magnetic Tunneling Junctions
Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory
Emerging Spintronic Memories
GMR Spin-Valve Biosensors
Semiconductor Spin-Lasers
Spin Logic Devices