Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin
degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this …

Spintronics is a multidisciplinary field involving physics, chemistry, and engineering, and is a
new research area for solid‐state scientists. A variety of new materials must be found to …

Magnetically engineered magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) show promise as non-volatile
storage cells in high-performance solid-state magnetic random access memories (MRAM) …

This book emerged from a close collaboration of the authors which started in the fall of 2000.
Early that year one of us (JS) had joined the Stanford faculty after spending nearly 15 years …

This review presents an overview of the thermal properties of mesoscopic structures. The
discussion is based on the concept of electron energy distribution, and, in particular, on …

Magnetic nanostructures, such as dots and dot arrays, nanowires, multilayers and
nanojunctions, are reviewed and compared with bulk magnets. The emphasis is on the …

In general, conventional superconductivity should not occur in a ferromagnet, though it has
been seen in iron under pressure. Moreover, theory predicts that the current is always …

The discovery of enhanced magnetoresistance and oscillatory interlayer exchange coupling
in transition metal multilayers just over a decade ago has enabled the development of new …

The phenomenon of electron tunnelling has been known since the advent of quantum
mechanics, but continues to enrich our understanding of many fields of physics, as well as …

Concomitant with the development of metal-based spintronics in the late 1980s and 1990s,
important advances were made on the growth of high-quality oxide thin films and …