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Spintronic Properties and Advanced Materials

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Spintronics is an interactive combination of electronics and magnetics that has been growing in the twenty-first century with the development of nanotechnology. Spintronics is a new type of electronics that uses the mutual control between magnetic and other physical signals such as electrical and optical signals. As a fundamental concept for spintronics, recently, spin current has been attracting much attention. Understanding spin current means the clarification of the mechanisms underlying the mutual control of various physical signals, which is expected to result in further progress in spintronics. In this chapter, the concept of spin current and its historical background are first explained, and then advanced materials for spintronics are reviewed. Much attentions are also paid to the physical phenomena emerged from the coupling between spin in magnetic materials and electromagnetic wave. At early stage in the research of magnetism, people used electromagnetic wave as a probe to obtain various kinds of microscopic information in magnetic materials, but electromagnetic waves are used more actively in recent spintronics research. Those are not only a probe but also a tool of making spin current and of changing spin in direction and magnitudes, and those are also reviewed in this chapter.

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  1. Magnetic Materials Laboratory, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

    Koki Takanashi

  2. WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

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Takanashi, K., Mizukami, S. (2013). Spintronic Properties and Advanced Materials. In: Aoyagi, Y., Kajikawa, K. (eds) Optical Properties of Advanced Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33527-3_5

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