Spintronics

CIC nanoGUNE Seminars

Speaker

Samuel D. Bader, Materials Science Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA

When

2011/04/08
14:00

Place

nanoGUNE seminar room, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia - San Sebastian

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**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR WILL BE AT 12:00** ** ** **Spintronics** ***** S. D. Bader Materials Science Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 USA Spintronics encompasses the ever-evolving field of magnetic electronics.[1] It 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 depend 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 in recent years. The talk highlights select promising areas and features recent work at Argonne, including, most strikingly, in the realm of medical applications. ∗ 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 _Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics_ 1, 71-88 (2010) 2\. Dong-Hyun Kim, Elena A. Rozhkova, Ilya V. Ulasov, S. D. Bader, Tijana Rajh, Maciej S. Lesniak, and V. Novosad, _Nature Materials_ 9, 165-171 (2010).