Название: Oxide Spintronics
Автор: Tamalika Banerjee
Издательство: Jenny Stanford Publishing
Год: 2019
Страниц: 321
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 23.8 MB

Oxide materials have been used in mainstream semiconductor technology for several decades and have served as important components, such as gate insulators or capacitors, in integrated circuits. However, in recent decades, this material class has emerged in its own right as a potential contender for alternative technologies, generally designated as ‘beyond Moore’.

The 2004 discovery by Ohtomo and Hwang was a global trendsetter in this context. It involved observing a two-dimensional, high-mobility electron gas at the heterointerface between two insulating oxides, LaAlO3 and SrTiO3, supported by the rise of nascent deposition and growth-monitoring techniques, which was an important direction in materials science research. The quest to understand the origin of this unparalleled physical property and to find other emergent properties has been an active field of research in condensed matter that has united researchers with expertise in diverse fields such as thin-film growth, defect control, advanced microscopy, semiconductor technology, computation, magnetism and electricity, spintronics, nanoscience, and nanotechnology.

The field of complex oxide devices gained momentum in recent years by the inclusion of a unique technique that has the ability to probe, at the nanometer scale, and with a high lateral resolution sub-surface features and buried interfaces that are fundamental to the analysis of electronic transport at (non-)engineered interfaces.