Introduction to spintronics. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Marc Cahay.
• Other Names: Bandyopadhyay, S; Cahay, M
• Contents: The Early History of Spin ; Spin; The Bohr Planetary Model and Space Quantization; The Birth of "Spin"; The Stern-Gerlach Experiment; The Advent of Spintronics; The Quantum Mechanics of Spin; Pauli Spin Matrices; The Pauli Equation and Spinors; More on the Pauli Equation; Extending the Pauli Equation - the Dirac Equation; The Time Independent Dirac Equation; Appendix; The Bloch Sphere; The Spinor and the "Qubit"; The Bloch Sphere Concept; Evolution of a Spinor; Spin-1/2 Particle in a Constant Magnetic Field: Larmor Precession; Preparing to Derive the Rabi Formula; The Rabi Formula; The Density Matrix ; The Density Matrix Concept: Case of a Pure State; Properties of the Density Matrix; Pure Versus Mixed State; Concept of the Bloch Ball; Time Evolution of the Density Matrix: Case of Mixed State ; The Relaxation Times T1 and T2 and the Bloch Equations; Spin Orbit Interaction; Spin Orbit Interaction in a Solid; Magneto-Electric Sub-Bands in Quantum Confined Structures in the Presence of Spin-Orbit Interaction; Dispersion Relations of Spin Resolved Magneto-Electric Subbands and Eigenspinors in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in the Presence of Spin-Orbit Interaction; Dispersion Relations of Spin Resolved Magneto-Electric Subbands and Eigenspinors in a One-Dimensional Electron Gas in the Presence of Spin-Orbit Interaction; Magnetic Field Perpendicular to Wire Axis and the Electric Field Causing Rashba Effect; Eigenenergies of Spin Resolved Subbands and Eigenspinors in a Quantum Dot in the Presence of Spin-Orbit Interaction; Why Are the Dispersion Relations Important?; The Three Types of Hall Effect; Spin Relaxation; Spin Relaxation Mechanisms; Spin relaxation in a quantum dot; Is the Effective Magnetic Field due to Spin-Orbit Interaction Proportional to v or k?; The Spin Galvanic Effect; Exchange Interaction; Identical Particles and the Pauli Exclusion Principle; Hartree and Hartree-Fock Approximations; The Role of Exchange in Ferromagnetism; The Heisenberg Hamiltonian; Spin Transport in Solids; The Drift-Diffusion Model; The Semiclassical Model; Concluding Remarks; Passive Spintronic Devices and Related Concepts; Spin Valve; Spin Injection Efficiency; Hysteresis in Spin Valve Magnetoresistance; Giant Magnetoresistance; Spin Accumulation; Spin Injection Across a Ferromagnet/Metal Interface; Spin Injection in a Ferromagnet/Semiconductor/Ferromagnet Spin Valve; Spin Extraction at a Ferromagnetic Contact/Semiconductor Interface; Hybrid Spintronics ; Spin based transistors; Spin Field Effect Transistors (SPINFET); Device Performance of SPINFETs; Power Dissipation Estimates; Other Types of SPINFETs; The Importance of the Spin Injection Efficiency; Transconductance, Gain, Bandwidth and Isolation; Spin Bipolar Junction Transistors (SBJT); GMR-based Transistors; Concluding Remarks; Monolithic Spintronics; Monolithic Spintronics; Reading and Writing Single Spin; Single Spin Logic; Energy Dissipation Issues; Comparison Between Hybrid and Monolithic Spintronics; Concluding Remarks; Quantum Computing with Spins ; The Quantum Inverter; Can the NAND Gate Be Switched Without Dissipating Energy?; Universal Reversible Gate: The Toffoli-Fredkin Gate; A-Matrix; Quantum Gates; Qubits; Superposition States; Quantum Parallelism; Universal Quantum Gates; A 2-Qubit "Spintronic" Universal Quantum Gate; Conclusion; A Quantum Mechanics Primer; Blackbody Radiation and Quantization of Electromagnetic Energy; The Concept of the Photon; Wave-Particle Duality and the De Broglie Wavelength; Postulates of Quantum Mechanics ; Some Elements of Semiconductor Physics: Particular Applications in Nanostructures; The Rayleigh-Ritz Variational Procedure; The Transfer Matrix Formalism
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 621.381; Spintronics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420004748; 1420004743
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