The Institute Colloquium: Physical principles and applications of spintronics
Date:
Monday, November 25, 2013 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker:
Tomas Jungwirth (Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Location:
Raiffeisen Lecture Hall, Central Building
Series:
Institute colloquium
Contact:
Hetzenauer Irene
In this lecture we will introduce the field of spintronics which has revolutionized magnetic storage technologies, is making its way into semiconductor microchips, and represents one of the most rapidly developing scientific fields in nanoelectronics. We will start by introducing basic physical concepts of spintronics which recognize that, apart from the electrical charge, each electron carries a microscopic magnetic moment called spin. Its utility led to discoveries of many new physical effects in magneto-electronics, some of which are now widely used in applications and others still challenging our basic understanding of relativistic quantummechanics phenomena. Current spintronics research topics pursued in our group and worldwide will be introduced in the lecture.