Projekte

The field of spintronics - exploiting not only the charge of an electron but also its spin - represents a fast emerging technology in todays' physics.br 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.

• Egle, Stefan - Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in
• Scheer, Elke - Projektleiter*in
• Pietsch, Torsten - Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in
• Ruitenbeek, Jan - Projektleiter*in (extern)
• Naidyuk, Yuri - Projektleiter*in (extern)
• Temnov, Vasily - Projektleiter*in (extern)
• Shekhter, Robert - Projektleiter*in (extern)
• Kadigrobov, Anatoly - Projektleiter*in (extern)

• FB Physik
• AG Scheer (Experimentalphysik mit SP Nanoelektronik)