Spintronics: electrons, spins, computers and telephones

Date

Oct 25, 2011

Time

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Speaker

Nobelpreisträger Physik 2007: Albert Fert

Affiliation

Scientific Director UMP CNRS/Thales, Palaiseau and Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Language

en

Main Topic

Elektro- u. Informationstechnik

Other Topics

Physik, Informatik, Elektro- u. Informationstechnik, Materialien

Host

Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Robert Kirchner, Tel. 36414 and presented by the CRC 912: HAEC – Highly Adaptive Energy-Efficient Computing

Description

Spintronics exploits the influence of the electron spin orientation on the electronic transport. Although one knows mainly the “giant magnetoresistance” (GMR) of the magnetic multilayers and the large increase of the hard disc capacity obtained with read heads based on the GMR, the research on spintronics has also revealed many other interesting effects and is developing today along novel directions with promising prospects as well for short term applications as for the “beyond CMOS” perspective. After an introduction on the fundamentals of spintronics, I will review some of the most interesting emerging directions of today: spin transfer and its applications to STT-RAMs or to microwave generation, spintronics with semiconductors, graphene and carbon nanotubes, Spin Hall Effects, neuromorphic devices etc. We are looking forward to welcome all interested colleagues and scientists to this lecture and to join an inspiring discussion on current topics in spintronics and advancing electronics. This colloquium is part of the cfAED Distinguished Lecture Series (Cluster proposal “Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden”).

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