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Electron Spin Physics and Engineering Lab
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A lab that uses spintronics to create the devices of the future.
AboutAbout the lab
Beyond semiconductors, one step further.
The Electron Spin Physics and Engineering Lab conducts research on spintronics, aiming to create future devices that will open up the next generation of the electronics industry.
Its goal is to create new spintronic devices by combining semiconductors and magnetic materials.
The lab's research is built on three pillars: magnetic garnet physics and engineering, semiconductor spintronics, and spin caloritronics.
The lab has ongoing or planned international joint research with research groups at universities in countries such as the UK and Sweden.
Key terms
- Spintronics
- An interdisciplinary field combining magnetics and electronics. It uses the spin of electrons as the carrier of information.
- Spin current
- A flow of electron spin that arises separately from the flow of charge. It can also be generated by a temperature difference.
- Magnetic garnet
- An insulating ferrimagnet that can carry magnetic information even though it does not conduct electricity.
- Spin caloritronics
- A term combining "calorie," the unit of heat, and spintronics. A field that studies the interaction between thermoelectric properties and spin angular momentum.
NewsLab news
Paper co-authored with Chalmers University of Technology published in APL Materials
Paper on joint research on current-induced magnetization switching in a magnetic insulator published in npj Spintronics
Electron Spin Physics and Engineering Lab launched
ResearchResearch themes
Using new spintronic materials, the lab explores the fundamental science of how spin currents are generated, transported, and detected. It aims at future devices that go beyond even the spin devices that will advance semiconductors.
*Illustrative imagePhysics and engineering of magnetic garnets
Magnetic garnet is a material that can carry magnetic information even though it does not conduct electricity. The lab developed a method for making ultrathin films and observed current-induced magnetization switching, a phenomenon in which an electric current reverses the direction of magnetization.
*Illustrative imageSilicon spintronics
Silicon is a semiconductor that can carry spin currents over long distances. The lab developed the electrode materials needed to generate spin currents, and is now working to improve device performance.
*Illustrative imageGenerating spin currents from heat
The lab studies effects such as the spin-dependent Seebeck effect, the spin counterpart of the Seebeck effect. Because heat can generate a spin current from a ferromagnet into a nonmagnetic material, Joule heat produced in semiconductor devices can be reused via spin currents.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Electron Spin Physics and Engineering Lab consist of faculty and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorNaoto Yamashita
- Assistant ProfessorGarima Vashisht
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Magnetic Semiconductor ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Physics and engineering of magnetic garnets: “Almandine garnet 2” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Silicon spintronics: “SiliconCroda” Enricoros at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
- Generating spin currents from heat: “Bar-magnets-repelling-iron-filings-max” MikeRun, Vera Wurmsdobler / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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