The Dancing of Spintronics

                               March 18, 2014, Room 512, Physics Building of Tongji University
To distinguish from traditional electronics, spintronics is defined as the study to manipulate both charge and spin of electrons in solid state physics. In 1988, the finding of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect, as the symbol of birth of spintronics, was first reported by Albert Fert & Peter Andreas Grünberg who shared 2007 Nobel Physics Prize, respectively. In last twenty years, a unique and surprising physical picture based on spin properties of electrons is becoming clearer, and some mature spintronics devices such as disk read head designed by tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) and nonvolatile magnetic random access memory (MRAM) have been applied in the industry. Meanwhile, a series of novel physical problems, like spin transfer torque, spin Hall effect, half metal, current driven magnetization reversing, remain unresolved.

With more and more charming challenges keeping to emerge in this field, it would be a great opportunity for everybody who is attracted by the dancing of Spintronics. We are thus deeply pleasured to invite teachers and students to join in the workshop of spintronics and discuss with each other feel free. Thank you !

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