Spintronics for next generation innovative devices

Content: Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Contents
 List of Contributors
 Series Preface
 Preface
 Introduction
 Materials for Spintronics
 Spin Injector Materials with High Polarization
 Carbon Spintronics
 Silicon Spintronics
 Spintronics Functions
 Spin-Dependent Transport
 Spin Current, Spin Hall Effect, and Spin Pumping
 Spin Torque
 Spin Seebeck Effect
 Electric Control of Spin Phenomena
 Spin Photonics
 Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Magnetoresistance Effects
 1.1 Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) Effect
 1.1.1 Magnetoresistance Effects in Ferromagnetic Materials
 1.1.2 Phenomenon of GMR Effect. 1.1.3 Mechanism of GMR Effect1.1.4 Oscillatory Behavior of Interlayer Exchange Coupling and GMR
 1.1.5 The Application of GMR and the Spin Valve
 1.1.6 CIP-GMR and CPP-GMR
 1.1.7 GMR in Granular Systems
 1.2 Tunnel Magnetoresistance (TMR) Effect
 1.2.1 The Principle of TMR
 1.2.2 TMR Effect in Transition Metals and Alloys with Al-O Tunnel Barrier
 1.2.3 TMR Effect in Half-Metallic Systems
 1.2.4 TMR Effect with Coherent Tunneling
 1.2.5 TMR Effect in Granular Systems
 References
 Chapter 2 Spintronics Materials with High-Spin Polarization
 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Development of Highly Spin Polarized Materials2.3 Device Applications
 2.3.1 CPP-GMR Devices using Highly Spin Polarized Heusler Alloys
 2.3.2 Narrow Read Sensor for High Density Recording
 2.4 Summary
 Acknowledgements
 References
 Chapter 3 Spin Current
 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Concept of Spin Current
 3.3 An Exact Definition of Spin Current
 3.3.1 Microscopic Description of Conduction Electrons
 3.3.2 Conservation of Charge
 3.3.3 Conservation of Spin and Spin Current
 3.4 Incoherent Spin Current
 3.4.1 Fermi-Dirac Distribution [3, 4, 5]
 3.4.2 Diffusion Equation. 3.4.3 Spin Diffusion Equation [6]3.5 Exchange Spin Current
 3.5.1 Magnetic Order and Exchange Interaction
 3.5.2 Exchange Spin Current
 3.5.3 Spin-Wave Spin Current
 3.6 Topological Spin Current
 3.6.1 Bulk Topological Spin Current
 3.6.2 Surface Topological Spin Current
 3.7 Thermal Spin Current --
Spin Seebeck Effect
 3.7.1 Sample Configuration and Measurement Mechanism
 3.7.2 Longitudinal Spin Seebeck Effect
 3.7.3 Transverse Spin Seebeck Effect
 3.7.4 Thermoelectric Coating based on Spin Seebeck Effect
 3.7.5 Basic Mechanism of Spin Seebeck Effect
 3.8 Concluding Remarks
 References. Chapter 4 Spin Hall Effect and Inverse Spin Hall Effect4.1 Spin Hall Effect
 4.1.1 Introduction
 4.1.2 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Hall Effect
 4.1.3 Experimental Observation of Spin Hall Effect in Semiconductors and Metals
 4.1.4 Intrinsic Hall Effects for Photons and Magnons
 4.2 Topological Insulators
 4.2.1 Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators
 4.2.2 Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators
 4.2.3 Experiments on Topological Insulators
 4.3 Summary
 Acknowledgment
 References
 Chapter 5 Spin Torque (Domain Wall Drive, Magnetization Reversal)
 5.1 Introduction.