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Overview of the Conference |
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The electrical control of the spin degree of freedom is the key issue in the field of spintronics, where one would like to exploit the spin of the electrons to carry, store and process information. So far, spin and charge currents have always been employed in combination, for instance in the spin transfer torque effect. These spin-polarized currents generate heating due to unavoidable ohmic losses, which renders the understanding and utilization in devices difficult. To reduce heating, pure spin currents are key, and therefore it is no surprise that the first experimental observations of the spin Hall effect in 2004, i.e. the generation of a pure spin current transverse to a charge current, attracted much attention.
In the last three years several hundred papers have been published on the subject. The spin Hall effect has been proposed as a tool to create spin currents that offers further advantages over other methods, for instance it avoids the resistance mismatch problem which occurs when one injects a spin current through a ferromagnet-semiconductor interface. This seminar will bring together the leading scientists from the experimental and the theoretical community.
Discussing and working together will improve the theoretical understanding of the experimental results and stimulate further experiments to probe the theoretical predictions. A major goal of the seminar is to give young scientists the opportunity to enter an active field of research by interacting with the world-leading experts.
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- I. Adagideli
- D. Awshalom
- G. Bauer
- D. Culcer
- M. Dyakonov
- A. Fert
- J. I. Inoue
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- B. Kramer
- D. Loss
- A. G. Mal'shukov
- L. Molenkamp
- J. Moore
- S. Murakami
- Y. Otani
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- E. Saitoh
- G. Salis
- J. Schliemann
- S. O. Valenzuela
- B. J. van Wees
- G. Vignale
- J. Wunderlich
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