| AVS 59th Annual International Symposium and Exhibition | |
| Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures | Tuesday Sessions |
| Session MI+EN+BI-TuA |
| Session: | Fundamental Problems in Magnetism |
| Presenter: | S.D. Bader, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University |
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Spintronics encompasses the ever-evolving field of magnetic electronics.[1,2] Fields such as spintronics are hold the potential to extend the information technology revolution as the semiconductor road map reaches its end . A major issue with present day electronics is in its demand for increased power. Spintronics offers the possibility to communicate via pure spin currents as opposed to electric charge currents. The talk provides a brief perspective of recent developments to switch magnetic moments by spin-polarized currents, electric fields and photonic fields. Developments in the field of spintronics continue to be strongly dependent on the exploration and discovery of novel nanostructured materials and configurations. An array of exotic transport effects dependent on the interplay between spin and charge currents have been explored theoretically and experimentally in recent years. The talk highlights select promising areas for future investigation, and, features recent work at Argonne, [3,4] including, most strikingly, in the realm of medical applications. [5]
＊ Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
1. S. D. Bader and S. S. P. Parkin, “Spintronics,” in Ann. Rev. of Cond. Matt. Phys.,1, 71-88 (2010).
2. S. D. Bader, Rev. Mod. Phys.78, 1-15 (2006).
3. O. Mosendz, J. E. Pearson, F. Y. Fradin, G. E. W. Bauer, S. D. Bader, A. Hoffmann, Phys. Rev. Lett.104, 046601 (2010).
4. J. S. Jiang, J. E. Pearson, S. D. Bader, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 156807 (2011).
5. D.-H. Kim, E. A. Rozhkova, I. V. Ulasov, S. D. Bader, T. Rajh, M. S. Lesniak, V. Novosad, Nature Mat.9, 165-171 (2010).
Samuel D. Bader, Materials Science Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 USA