Spintronics technology and device development

Abstract

The research field called spintronics has been formed over the last 20 years or so, and has greatly developed. Since then, a number of new phenomena have been discovered, and spintronics devices that use them have been proposed. In recent years, the period between the discoveries of novel materials or new phenomena and their application and commercialization has been becoming remarkably shorter, and the importance of the fundamental understanding had become greater. This research report provides an overview of the characteristics of spintronics technologies, then summarizes the key technologies during the spintronics device development to the present, and explains about future prospects.