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{{Infobox Course
| code = pYL422
| name = Spintronics
| credits = 3
| credit_structure = 3-0-0
| pre_requisites = PYL125
| overlaps =
}}

== pYL422 : Spintronics ==
Spintronics, its need and future vision; Basics of magnetic materials, spin orbit interaction, spin polarized current and their injection, accumulation and detection, Magnetoresistance and concepts of spin detection and magnetic memory; Spin valves & GMR, CIP and CPP transport, Semiclassical transport models; Basics of spin valve and magnetic tunnel junctions, Tunnel magneto resistance, Quantum mechanical model of coherent tunneling and Giant TMR; Magnetic anisotropies and exchange bias, Spin valves with AF and SAF layers, Magnetization switching in AF and SAF layers, Magnetic domains and domain walls, single domain nano-particles; Pure spin and chage currents, spin-Hall effect and inverse spin-Hall effect, spin Seebeck effect, magneto-caloric effect, generation of spin current by charge and thermal current; Current induced magnetization switching, Spin torque effect and spin torque oscillators of tunable GHz frequency; High density data storage: MRAM, two stable states, half-select problem, Savtchenko switching and Toggle MRAM; Ultra high density devices: Current & STT driven DW motion, Race track memory, Shift resistor; Q-bits and spin logic. pYL423 Nanoscale Energy Materials and Devices 3 Credits(3-0-0) Basics of photovoltaics, Quantum confinement and plasmonics in photovoltaic devices, Nanorod solar cells, Principle of operation of hybrid and dye-sensitized solar cells, Nanoscale materials for improving thermoelectric figure of merit, Photoelectrochemical cells.

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