1. Quantum description of electron (wave equation, uncertainty principle, tunelling). Orbital and spin moment, Pauli matrices.
2. Electron in solids, Fermi level, Fermi=Dirac distribution, diffuse and balistic transport of electron.
3. Spin accumulation and spin-polarized current, spin injection from ferromagnetic to dia-paramagnetic material
4. Magnetotransport phenomena (AMR, GMR, TMR).
5. Generation of spin current using spin pumping, fundamentals of magnetization dynamics (FMR, Landau-Lifschitz equation) with spin-polarized current.
6. Devices based on spin-polarized current (GMR-TMR head, hard-disk, MRAM, spin oscillators).
7. Spin-Hall effect, inverse spin-Hall effect, spin calorimetry, generation of spin current by temperature gradient.
8. Spin current in metals, semiconductors, and organic materials, materials for spintronics, Rashba effect.
2. Electron in solids, Fermi level, Fermi=Dirac distribution, diffuse and balistic transport of electron.
3. Spin accumulation and spin-polarized current, spin injection from ferromagnetic to dia-paramagnetic material
4. Magnetotransport phenomena (AMR, GMR, TMR).
5. Generation of spin current using spin pumping, fundamentals of magnetization dynamics (FMR, Landau-Lifschitz equation) with spin-polarized current.
6. Devices based on spin-polarized current (GMR-TMR head, hard-disk, MRAM, spin oscillators).
7. Spin-Hall effect, inverse spin-Hall effect, spin calorimetry, generation of spin current by temperature gradient.
8. Spin current in metals, semiconductors, and organic materials, materials for spintronics, Rashba effect.