What is Spintronics and How Does Spin-Orbit Coupling Play a Role?

[plxmny]

I am interested in learning about spintronics. Anybody around who is familiar this field?

 

[dlgoff]

I was just looking over the Atomic, Solid State, Comp. Physics forum where ZapperZ was replying to a question about growing crystal lattices and said "the lattice mismatch is actually desirable because it produces a strain in the film that breaks the degeneracy of the crystal, allowing for the production of spin-polarized photoelectrons.".
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=1326599#post1326599"
So I did a little googling on spin-polarized photoelectrons production and found out that spintronics is an application for these photoelectrons. You might want to ask ZapperZ.

Regards

 

[berkeman]

I'll move this thread from EE over to that forum so that Zz sees it. Thanks for the pointer, dlgoff.

 

[PRB147]

please see the original paper by Rashba!
Wrinkler write a book about spin-orbit coupling, published by Springer
you can consult it.