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| View Larger Image | Spin Electronics (Lecture Notes in Physics) | Hardcoverby Michael Ziese (Editor), Martin J. Thornton (Editor)
| List Price: | $179.00 | |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Springer | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 493 Pages | | Publication Date: | June 15, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 3,436,401rd |
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Product Description
For 50 years conventional electronics has ignored the electron spin. The manipulation and utilisation of the electron spin heralds an exciting and rapidly changing era in electronics, combining the disciplines of magnetism and traditional electronics. The first generation of "spintronic" devices (such as read heads based on giant magnetoresistance or non-volatile magnetic random access memories) have already gained dominant positions in the market place. This volume, the first of its kind on spin electronics describes all the essential topics for new researchers entering the field. It covers magnetism and semiconductor basics, micromagnetism, experimental techniques, materials science, device fabrication and new developments in spin-dependent processes. At the end of most chapters are a number of exercises and worked problems to aid the reader in understanding this fascinating new field. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 3 reviews)
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Very disappointing by A. J. Sutter (Tokyo, Japan)  2 Stars
August 22, 2004
This is a very uneven work. By my reckoning, only about half of the articles are half-way decent pedagogically. Of these, a couple on semiconductor electronics and metal-semiconductor junctions have content that is easily obtainable elsewhere. Another chapter, "Circuit Theory for the Electricaly Declined", is delightful (especially for someone like me, who fits the title), but isn't specifically relevant to the theme of the book. Chapters on spintronics materials, electronic structures on oxides and giant magnetoresistance are also good.
By the way, most of the articles address materials properties and basic physics -- the treatment of devices and applications is weak.
One or two of the other chapters (including one on mixed-valence manganites, by M. Viret, a big name in the field), are highly technical reviews for experts, with no attempt to be pedagogical. Others make tremendous logical leaps in their presentations -- again, perhaps an expert wouldn't be bothered by this, but a student probably would be. Still others, such as on fabrication techniques, are too superficial to be illuminating.
The editors seem quite absent from this volume. Most of the authors are not native speakers of English. The articles contain numerous grammatical problems, such as failure of subject-verb agreement -- surely an editorial eye could have removed these silly irritations. The larger editorial failure is in not requiring the contibutors to be more consistent in targeting a specific (and non-expert) level of audience.
I would strongly recommend you look closely at an actual copy of this book before spending the money to buy it.
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Spintronics- The Art of Spin Orientation Processing by dragoman (Mannheim, Germany)  5 Stars
January 15, 2002
Spintronics, M. J. Thornton and M. Ziese (Eds.), LNP 569, Springer Verlag, 2001The Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP) published by Springer Verlag is a treasure of physics knowledge consisting of about 600 volumes covering all areas of physics. The main role of LNP is to offer a comprehensive account of the hottest issues of physics, written in an accessible style, for a reader that could be quite unfamiliar with the treated subject. The main aim of a volume in LNP is to encourage the reader to start his/her own research after reading of a LNP volume. Starting with the year 2001, the LNP is available also in electronic form, and any volume published in the years 2000 and 2001 can be downloaded from the Springer Internet homepage.Moreover, Springer Verlag has offered in the summer of 2001 free access to all LNP volumes published in 2000, and at the end of 2001 another free access to LNP volumes published in 2000 and 2001. Thus, the physics community was able to read the last volumes of LNP and to test their contents. An illustrative example about LNP is its 569th volume, named Spintronics, edited by M. J. Thornton and M. Ziese. This volume of about 500 pages is the first book dedicated to the emerging area of spintronics. The large majority of electronic and optoelectronic devices are based on the dynamics and control of charged carriers when their spin orientation plays no role. The spin electronics and the spin optoelectronics briefly termed Spintronics are new areas of research entirely based on the control and transfer of the electronic spin orientation. There are only two spin orientations: spin-up and spin-down. Thus, in these devices the information is encoded in the spin orientation of the carriers and can be read, memorized, transferred and finally sensed as a certain polarity of the current flow. Ferromagnets are natural sources of oriented spins because they contain a certain spin asymmetry. There is an increased interest in the developing of semiconductors able to work based on spin orientation, although the large majority of them are non-magnetic. An example of the emerging area of ferromagnetic semiconductors is GaAs, which becomes ferromagnetic when doped with a magnetic dopant. The spin orientation can be controlled even when the spins are tunneling semiconductor interfaces.The applications of spintronics are promising, and some of them are already implemented and demonstrated in computer architectures: (i) high-density hard disks based on giant magnetic resistance (GMR) of spintronics materials when they are turned from a spin state to another by a magnetic bias, (ii) Random Access Memories based on GMR that are non-volatile and one million times faster than a hard disk.A very important future application is the quantum information based on spin orientation. The already proposed solutions based on atom or ion manipulation are not reliable for real computing devices, being able to perform only some operations in predetermined sequence that cannot be changed. On the contrary, spintronics devices are more versatile: the spin orientation can be programmed, switched and memorized at picosecond time scales. The book takes into account all the aspects mentioned above being an introduction in the spintronics domain; it starts with introductory chapters, then presents the materials used in spintronics and their applications for data storage, field sensors and magnetic imaging. The realization of spintronics devices using micro- and nanofabrication techniques is also reviewed.The book reviewed above is only an example of the LNP collection of books, which is a must for any physics library. Since LNP is being available via Internet, it is now more easily accessible to the physicists at their work place or at home. LNP was a main tool of education and knowledge for some generation of physicists and will continue to be so in its new electronic form.
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Spintronics-The Art of Spin Orientation Processing by dragoman (Mannheim, Germany) 5 Stars
January 15, 2002
Book Review-Spintronics, M. J. Thornton and M. Ziese (Eds.), LNP 569, Springer Verlag, 2001The Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP) published by Springer Verlag is a treasure of physics knowledge consisting of about 600 volumes covering all areas of physics. The main role of LNP is to offer a comprehensive account of the hottest issues of physics, written in an accessible style, for a reader that could be quite unfamiliar with the treated subject. The main aim of a volume in LNP is to encourage the reader to start his/her own research after reading of a LNP volume. Starting with the year 2001, the LNP is available also in electronic form, and any volume published in the years 2000 and 2001 can be downloaded from the Springer Internet homepage. Moreover, Springer Verlag has offered in the summer of 2001 free access to all LNP volumes published in 2000, and at the end of 2001 another free access to LNP volumes published in 2000 and 2001. Thus, the physics community was able to read the last volumes of LNP and to test their contents. An illustrative example about LNP is its 569th volume, named Spintronics, edited by M. J. Thornton and M. Ziese. This volume of about 500 pages is the first book dedicated to the emerging area of spintronics. The large majority of electronic and optoelectronic devices are based on the dynamics and control of charged carriers when their spin orientation plays no role. The spin electronics and the spin optoelectronics briefly termed Spintronics are new areas of research entirely based on the control and transfer of the electronic spin orientation. There are only two spin orientations: spin-up and spin-down. Thus, in these devices the information is encoded in the spin orientation of the carriers and can be read, memorized, transferred and finally sensed as a certain polarity of the current flow. Ferromagnets are natural sources of oriented spins because they contain a certain spin asymmetry. There is an increased interest in the developing of semiconductors able to work based on spin orientation, although the large majority of them are non-magnetic. An example of the emerging area of ferromagnetic semiconductors is GaAs, which becomes ferromagnetic when doped with a magnetic dopant. The spin orientation can be controlled even when the spins are tunneling semiconductor interfaces.The applications of spintronics are promising, and some of them are already implemented and demonstrated in computer architectures: (i) high-density hard disks based on giant magnetic resistance (GMR) of spintronics materials when they are turned from a spin state to another by a magnetic bias, (ii) Random Access Memories based on GMR that are non-volatile and one million times faster than a hard disk.A very important future application is the quantum information based on spin orientation. The already proposed solutions based on atom or ion manipulation are not reliable for real computing devices, being able to perform only some operations in predetermined sequence that cannot be changed. On the contrary, spintronics devices are more versatile: the spin orientation can be programmed, switched and memorized at picosecond time scales. The book takes into account all the aspects mentioned above being an introduction in the spintronics domain; it starts with introductory chapters, then presents the materials used in spintronics and their applications for data storage, field sensors and magnetic imaging. The realization of spintronics devices using micro- and nanofabrication techniques is also reviewed.The book reviewed above is only an example of the LNP collection of books, which is a must for any physics library. Since LNP is being available via Internet, it is now more easily accessible to the physicists at their work place or at home. LNP was a main tool of education and knowledge for some generation of physicists and will continue to be so in its new electronic form.Daniela DragomanMircea DragomanUniv. MannheimDept. Optoelectronics,B6, 23-29, Building C68131 Mannheim, Germanydanieladragoman@yahoo.commdragoman@yahoo.comPersonal webpages:http://www.geocities.com/danieladragomanhttp://www.geocities.com/mdragoman
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