Spintronics Handbook, Second Edition (2^nd Ed.)
Spin Transport and Magnetism - Three Volume Set

The second edition offers an update on the single most comprehensive survey of the two intertwined fields of spintronics and magnetism, covering the diverse array of materials and structures, including silicon, organic semiconductors, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and engineered nanostructures. It focuses on seminal pioneering work, together with the latest in cutting-edge advances, notably extended discussion of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene, topological insulators, skyrmions, and molecular spintronics. The main sections cover physical phenomena, spin-dependent tunneling, control of spin and magnetism in semiconductors, and spin-based applications.

Volume 1. Metallic Spintronics

Section I. Introduction

1. Historical Overview: From Electron Transport in Magnetic Materials to Spintronics
Albert Fert

2. Basics of Nano-thin Film Magnetism
Bretislav Heinrich, Paul Omelchenko, and Erol Girt

3. Micromagnetism as a Prototype for Complexity
Anthony S. Arrott

4. Giant Magnetoresistance
Jack Bass

5. Spin Injection, Accumulation and Relaxation in Metals
Mark Johnson

6. Magnon Spintronics: Fundamentals of Magnon-based Computing
Andrii V. Chumak

7. Spin Torque Effects in Magnetic Systems: Experiment
Maxim Tsoi

8. Spin Torque in Magnetic Systems: Theory
A. Manchon and S. Zhang

9. Spin-Orbit Torques: Experiments and Theory
Aurélien Manchon and Hyunsoo Yang

10. All-Optical Switching of Magnetization: From Fundamentals to Nanoscale Recording
Andrei Kirilyuk, Alexey V. Kimel, and Theo Rasing

11. Tunneling Magnetoresistance: Experiment (Non-MgO)
Patrick R. LeClair and Jagadeesh S. Moodera

12. Tunnel Magnetoresistance in MgO-based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Experiment
Shinji Yuasa

13. Tunneling Magnetoresistance: Theory
Kirill D. Belashchenko andEvgeny Y. Tsymbal

14. Spin Filter Tunneling
Tiffany S. Santos and Jagadeesh S. Moodera

15. Spin-Injection Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Yoshishige Suzuki and Hitoshi Kubota

16. Phase-sensitive Interface and Proximity Effects in Superconducting Spintronics
Matthias Eschrig

17. Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions
Manuel Bibes and Agnès Barthélémy

1. Spin Relaxation and Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors and Graphene
Jaroslav Fabian and M. W. Wu

2. Electrical Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors
Berend T. Jonker

3. Spin Transport in Si and Ge: Hot Electron Injection and Detection Experiments
Ian Appelbaum

4. Tunneling Magnetoresistance, Spin-Transfer and Spinorbitronics with (Ga,Mn)As
Jean Marie George, T. Huong Dang, E. Erina, T. L. Hoai Nguyen, H.-J. Drouhin, Henri Jaffrès

5. Spin Transport in Organic Semiconductors
Valentin Dediu, Luis E. Hueso, and Ilaria Bergenti

6. Spin Transport in Ferromagnet/III-V Semiconductor Heterostructures
Paul A. Crowell and Scott A. Crooker

7. Spin Polarization by Current
Sergey D. Ganichev, Maxim Trushin, and John Schliemann

8. Anomalous and Spin-Injection Hall Effects
Jairo Sinova, Joerg Wunderlich, and Tomas Jungwirth

9. Magnetic Semiconductors: III-V Semiconductors
Carsten Timm

10. Magnetism of Dilute Oxides
J. M. D. Coey

11. Magnetism of Complex Oxide Interfaces
Satoshi Okamoto, Shuai Dong, and Elbio Dagotto

12. LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃: A Tale of Two Magnetisms
Yun-Yi Pai, Anthony Tylan-Tyler, Patrick Irvin, and Jeremy Levy

13. Electric-field Controlled Magnetism
Fumihiro Matsukura and Hideo Ohno

14. Topological Insulators: From Fundamentals to Applications
Matthew J. Gilbert and Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

15. Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Topological Insulators
Abhinav Kandala, Anthony Richardella, and Nitin Samarth

1. Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Matthias Bode

2. Point Contact Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy
Boris E. Nadgorny

3. Ballistic Spin Transport
Bernard Doudin and N. T. Kemp

4. Graphene Spintronics
Csaba Józsa and Bart J. van Wees

5. Spintronics in 2D Materials
Wei Han and Ronald Kawakami

6. Magnetism and Transport in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Joaquín Fernández Rossier and R. Aguado

7. Spin Transport in Hybrid Nanostructures
Saburo Takahashi and Sadamichi Maekawa

8. Spin Caloritronics
Rafael Ramos and Eiji Saitoh

9. Nonlocal Spin Valves in Metallic Nanostructures
Yoshichika Otani, Takashi Kimura, Yasuhiro Niimi, and Hiroshi Idzuchi

10. Magnetic Skyrmions on Discrete Lattices
Elena Y. Vedmedenko and Ronald Wiesendanger

11. Molecular Spintronics
Stefano Sanvito

12. Magnetoresistive Sensors based on Magnetic Tunneling Junctions
Gang Xiao

13. Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM)
Johan Åkerman

14. Emerging Spintronic Memories
Stuart Parkin, Masamitsu Hayashi, Luc Thomas, Xin Jiang, Rai Moriya, and William Gallagher

15. GMR Spin-Valve Biosensors
Jung-Rok Lee, Richard S. Gaster, Drew A. Hall, and Shan X. Wang

16. Semiconductor Spin-Lasers
Igor Žutić, Jeongsu Lee, Christian Gøthgen, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Gaofeng Xu, Guilherme M. Sipahi, and Nils C. Gerhardt

17. Spin Transport and Magnetism in Electronic Systems
Hanan Dery

18. Spin Wave Logic Devices
Alexander Khitun and llya Krivorotov

Evgeny Tsymbal is a George Holmes University Distinguished Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Director of the UNL’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), and Director of the multi-institutional Center for NanoFerroic Devices (CNFD). He joined UNL in 2002 as an Associate Professor, was promoted to a Full Professor with Tenure in 2005 and named a Charles Bessey Professor of Physics in 2009 and George Holmes University Distinguished Professor in 2013. Prior to his appointment at UNL he was a research scientist at University of Oxford, United Kingdom, a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Research Center-Jülich, Germany, and a research scientist at the Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow. Evgeny Tsymbal’s research is focused on computational materials science aiming at the understanding of fundamental properties of advanced ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanostructures and materials relevant to nanoelectronics and spintronics. He has published over 200 papers, review articles and book chapters and presented over 150 invited talks. Evgeny Tsymbal is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, and a recipient of the UNL’s College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Research and Creativity Award (ORCA).

Igor Žutić received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Minnesota, after undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He was a postdoc at the University of Maryland and the Naval Research Lab. In 2005 he joined the State University of New York at Buffalo as an Assistant Professor of Physics and got promoted to an Associate Professor in 2009 and to a Full Professor in 2013. He proposed and chaired Spintronics 2001: International Conference on Novel Aspects of Spin-Polarized Transport and Spin Dynamics, at Washington DC. Work wi