Spintronics is one of the emerging research fields in nanotechnology and has been growing
very rapidly. Studies of spintronics were started after the discovery of giant …

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 …

A new mechanism is proposed for exciting the magnetic state of a ferromagnet. Assuming
ballistic conditions and using WKB wave functions, we predict that a transfer of vectorial spin …

This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on
interfacially driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and …

This tutorial article introduces the physics of spin transfer torques in magnetic devices. Our
intention is that it be accessible to beginning graduate students. We provide an elementary …

Electrons have a charge and a spin, but until recently, charges and spins have been
considered separately. In conventional electronics, the charges are manipulated by electric …

By starting with the Boltzmann equation, we calculate the transport properties of magnetic
multilayers for currents perpendicular to the layers. Our model takes into account both …

Two complementary effects modify the GHz magnetization dynamics of nanoscale
heterostructures of ferromagnetic and normal materials relative to those of the isolated …

Finding a means to generate, control and use spin-polarized currents represents an
important challenge for spin-based electronics,,, or 'spintronics'. Spin currents and the …

Abstract Hirsch [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1834 (1999)] recently proposed a spin Hall effect based
on the anomalous scattering mechanism in the absence of spin-flip scattering. Since the …