Recent Progress in Silicon-Based Spintronic Materials (Series on Spintronics; Volume 1) by L. Damewood, C.Y. Fong, and L.H. Yang - 2015

World Scientific, 2015. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In order to integrate spintronics into the semiconductor-based device business, scientists are applying the well-established fundamental knowledge about silicon to develop silicon-based materials that can sustain the necessary half-metallic properties above room temperature. Damewood, Fong, and Yang begin by reviewing the spin-based materials crystals, spin-dependent interactions, and half metals. Then they describe methods of studying spintronics: theory, growth methods, and characterization. Finally, they focus on silicon-based spintronics, with discussions of dilute doped manganese in silicon, silicon-based digital ferromagnetic hetero-structure, single doping iron and manganese in silicon, trilayers, and manganese-silicon clusters. (2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)