Magnetoelectronics

The arrival of the 'information age' took most people by surprise - including scientists and technologists. Today, research on better, smaller, and faster ways to store and transfer information continues to grow, and growing fast within this scope is the field of magnetoelectronics. With its possibilities as a magnetic storage technology capable of overcoming the vulnerabilities of CMOS (complementary metal on oxide semiconductor), magnetoelectronics promises to be an important installation in the information era. Magnetoelectronics......Page 2 Foreword......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 12 Contents......Page 14 Introduction to magnetoelectronics......Page 15 Spin valves......Page 81 Spin-polarized tunneling......Page 165 Magnetoresistive random access memories......Page 219 Magnetic tunnel junction based magnetoresistive random access memory......Page 245 Broader digital electronics applications of magnetoelectronics......Page 287 Magnetoresistive DNA chips......Page 345 Color plates......Page 389 Index......Page 401 "This book covers the topic of magnetoelectronics from the fundamentals to the advanced, making it an ideal reference at any level. Important contributions have come from the fields of physics, materials science, and electrical engineering, and new dimensions have been explored within biology, biophysics, and biochemistry. To top it off, each chapter is written by someone who made historically important contributions to the field."--BOOK JACKET The hallmark of a ferromagnetic material is that it displays spontaneous magnetization, developing a magnetic moment at temperatures below the characteristic ordering temperature Tc, and this property can be used to create patterned thin film device components with bistable magnetic states. The number one resource for all scientists, engineers and program managers involved in the ever-expanding field of Magnetoelectronics