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Introduction to Spin Electronics

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The driving force behind Spin Electronics is neatly summarized in J. M. D. Coey’s incisive observation [1] that “Conventional Electronics has ignored the spin of the electron”. In every hi-fi and radio set, 50% of the conducting electrons tend to be spin-up and the remainder are spin down (where up and down relate to some locally induced quantisation axis in the relevant wires and devices). Yet, although electron spin was known about for most of the 20th Century, no technical use is made of this fact.

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Gregg, J.F. (2001). Introduction to Spin Electronics. In: Ziese, M., Thornton, M.J. (eds) Spin Electronics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45258-3_1

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