Spin Electronics

Spin electronics will be the future nanotechnology for data storage and quantum computing. This book will appeal to researchers, engineers and advanced students.

This is the first book on the emerging topic of spin electronics, which will play an important role in nanotechnology, the key technology of the 21st century The style is tutorial Problems or worked examples are included in most chapters Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
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.- SpinValve and SpinTunneling Devices: Read Heads, MRAMs, Field Sensors.