Spintronics Handbook, Second Edition: Spin Transport and Magnetism

Spintronics Handbook, Second Edition offers an update on the single most comprehensive survey of the two intertwined fields of spintronics and magnetism, covering the diverse array of materials and structures, including silicon, organic semiconductors, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and engineered nanostructures. It focuses on seminal pioneering work, together with the latest in cutting-edge advances, notably extended discussion of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene, topological insulators, skyrmions, and molecular spintronics. The main sections cover physical phenomena, spin-dependent tunneling, control of spin and magnetism in semiconductors, and spin-based applications.

Evgeny Tsymbal is a George Holmes University Distinguished Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Director of the UNL's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), and Director of the multi-institutional Center for NanoFerroic Devices (CNFD). Evgeny Tsymbal's research is focused on computational materials science aiming at the understanding of fundamental properties of advanced ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanostructures and materials relevant to nanoelectronics and spintronics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, and a recipient of the UNL's College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Research and Creativity Award (ORCA). Igor Zutic is a Professor of Physics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. His work spans topics from high-temperature superconductors, Majorana fermions, unconventional magnetism, proximity effects, and two-dimensional materials, to prediction of various spin-based devices that are not limited to the concept of magnetoresistance used in commercial application for magnetically stored information. Such devices, including spin photodiodes, spin solar cells, spin transistors, and spin lasers (front cover illustration) have already been experimentally demonstrated. Igor Zutic- is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and 2019 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence.

Volume 1. Metallic Spintronics. Section I. Introduction 1. Historical Overview: From Electron Transport in Magnetic Materials to Spintronics Section II. Magnetic Metallic Multilayers 2. Basics of Nano-thin Film Magnetism 3. Micromagnetism as a Prototype for Complexity 4. Giant Magnetoresistance 5. Spin Injection, Accumulation and Relaxation in Metals 6. Magnon Spintronics: Fundamentals of Magnon-based Computing 7. Spin Torque Effects in Magnetic Systems: Experiment 8. Spin Torque in Magnetic Systems: Theory 9. Spin-Orbit Torques: Experiments and Theory 10. All-Optical Switching of Magnetization: From Fundamentals to Nanoscale Recording Section III. Magnetic Tunnel Junctions 11. Tunneling Magnetoresistance: Experiment (Non-MgO) 12. Tunnel Magnetoresistance in MgO-based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Experiment 13. Tunneling Magnetoresistance: Theory 14. Spin Filter Tunneling 15. Spin-Injection Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions 16. Phase-sensitive Interface and Proximity Effects in Superconducting Spintronics 17. Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions