Spin Electronics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ziese, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Thornton, Martin J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 569
• Subjects: Nanotechnology.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Optical and Electronic Materials.

For 50 years conventional electronics has ignored the electron spin. The manipulation and utilisation of the electron spin heralds an exciting and rapidly changing era in electronics, combining the disciplines of magnetism and traditional electronics. The first generation of "spintronic" d...

Table of Contents:

• to Spin Electronics
• Basic Concepts
• An Introduction to the Theory of Normal and Ferromagnetic Metals
• Basic Electron Transport
• Phenomenological Theory of Giant Magnetoresistance
• Electronic Structure, Exchange and Magnetism in Oxides
• Transport Properties of Mixed-Valence Manganites
• Spin Dependent Tunneling
• Basic Semiconductor Physics
• Metal-Semiconductor Contacts
• Micromagnetic Spin Structure
• Electronic Noise in Magnetic Materials and Devices
• Materials, Techniques and Devices
• Materials for Spin Electronics
• Thin Film Deposition Techniques (PVD)
• Magnetic Imaging
• Observation of Micromagnetic Configurations in Mesoscopic Magnetic Elements
• Micro- and Nanofabrication Techniques
• Spin Transport in Semiconductors
• Circuit Theory for the Electrically Declined
• Spin-Valve and Spin-Tunneling Devices: Read Heads, MRAMs, Field Sensors.