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Organic spin valves; Spin pumping
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Polymers used in the field of spintronics, which include injection, control, manipulation, and detection of spin-polarized electrons.
Introduction
Organic materials are promising for spintronics applications mainly because of the expected long spin relaxation time of spin-polarized electrons [1]. Also the organic material flexibility, low cost production, and unlimited versatility of chemical synthesis make organic spintronics a promising alternative to conventional inorganic spintronics. Spin-polarized transport characterized by giant magnetoresistance (GMR) was first demonstrated in fabricated organic spin valves in 2004 [2], with potential spintronics applications in magnetic random access memory. This achievement has triggered plentiful of additional experiments using various organic spintronics devices, with the aim to demonstrate spin-aligned electron injection from metallic ferromagnet (FM) electrodes into organic...
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This work was supported by the NSF grant No. DMR-1104495 and the NSF/MRSEC program at the University of Utah, grant No. DMR 1121252.
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Sun, D., Vardeny, Z.V. (2015). Polymers for Organic Spintronics. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_168
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