Spin-Thermo Electronics - STELE

Beschreibung

The field of spintronics - exploiting not only the charge of an electron but also its spin - represents a fast emerging technology in todays' physics.
The aim of the STELE-Project is to study non-equilibrium transport phenomena in ferromagnetic nanostructures with respect to energy and temperature. In particular, an external bias voltage can serve as a parameter to electrically control a spin-polarized current being injected from a ferromagnet (F) into a magnetic conductor, which can be either a paramagnet or a ferromagnet. Under certain circumstances this allows a generation of a highly non-equilibrium spin population and so called "hot electrons," creating an inversion of the distribution of spin-up and spin-down electrons. A relaxation back to the state of equilibrium requires a spin-flip and if any relaxation processes due to a change in momentum (e.g. magnons) are inhibited, this can be achieved by an emission of a photon.

Externe Teilnehmer
  • Kadigrobov, Anatoly - Projektleiter
  • Naidyuk, Yuri - Projektleiter
  • van Ruitenbeek, Jan - Projektleiter
  • Temnov, Vasily - Projektleiter
  • Shekhter, Robert - Projektleiter
Institutionen
  • FB Physik
Mittelgeber
Name Kennziffer Beschreibung Laufzeit
Europäische Union528/0901.01.2009 – 30.06.2012
Weitere Informationen
Laufzeit: 01.01.2009 – 30.06.2012
Link: Projekthomepage