The spin on electronics! September 27, 2009

Organised by Professor Stuart Parkin FRS, Professor Gabriel Aeppli and Professor Bryan Hickey

Recent advances in generating, manipulating and detecting spin-polarized electrons promise entirely new classes of spin based sensor, memory and logic devices, generally referred to as the field of spintronics.

These advances are based on recent fundamental discoveries involving spin polarized current in novel nano-materials, including, giant tunnelling magnetoresistance, the spin Hall effect, and the excitation of magnetization via the transfer of spin angular momentum from spin polarized current.

Confirmed speakers are:

Professor Ian Appelbaum, Professor David Awschalom, Professor Sergei Demokritov, Professor Albert Fert, Professor Claudia Felser, Professor Bert Koopmans, Professor Daniel Loss, Professor Hideo Ohno, Professor Stuart Parkin FRS, Professor Dan Ralph, Professor Theo Rasing, Professor Yeong-Ah Soh Professor Yoshishige Suzuki, Professor Yoshi Tokura and Professor Shoucheng Zhang.

The discussion meeting runs from 9am to 5pm on each day. The registration desk will open at 8.30am on each day.

Register for this event

This discussion meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is free to attend, but pre-registration online is essential. An optional lunch is offered each day for £15+VAT per day, and should be booked at registration. Payment is accepted online by Visa, MasterCard, Visa Debit, Maestro, Electron and Solo cards.

The proceedings of this meeting are scheduled to be published in a future issues of Philosophical Transactions A.

The deadline for submitting a poster is Friday 28 August 2009.

Note that changes to the programme are possible on the day.

Official Website: http://royalsociety.org/event.asp?id=7436&month=9,2009