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Spintronics Device 22053502 b26
Spintronics Device 22053502 b26
Spintronics Device 22053502 b26
The devices that use electrons' properties for storing, processing, and
transmitting information are spintronic and electronic devices. For
encoding data, electronic devices normally use electrical charge present
in an electron. The spintronic devices use spin that is the electron's
intrinsic angular momentum to encode the data. The examples include
Spin torque wave generators, macrospin approximation.
The idea of electron spin was proposed in 1925, much before the first
integrated circuit (which was in 1958). But due to the technological
limitations and lack of understanding, not much progress was made in
employing it, until the discovery of GMR in 1988. GMR ( giant
magnetoresistance) is considered as one of the milestones in the history
of physics, which led to the birth of spintronics.Spintronics devices are
divided into active devices which include spin valve, magnetic tunnel
junction, domain wall in nanowire, skyrmion And passive devices such as
Single spin logic ,hybrid spintronic. GMR effect is a phenomenon
observed in spin valves, where the electrical conductivity depends upon
the relative magnetization direction of ferromagnetic materials
FM/NFM/FM (ferromagnetic/non-ferromagnetic/ferromagnetic)
structure. Magnetic tunnel junction, a basic unit of MRAM, is a
multilayer magnetic nano-pillar structure. The discretion that spin current
transport dissipates almost zero power dissipation compared to charge
current. Recent developments in the field of material science have
enabled the development of unique structures, where the advantages of
both magnetic as well as silicon-based devices are combined to obtain
hybrid magnetic/silicon devices.
Spintronic devices are expected to be utilized not only in the memory sector
but also in the recently buzzing new paradigm of normally-off/instant-on
computer architecture known as PIM. Here, spintronic devices would also
facilitate the processing of information/data apart from storing them. Hence,
the computational capability is embedded into the memory .