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Spin electronics is a rapidly emerging field which is based on taking advantage of the unique properties of the spin of the electron, the nucleus and other fundamental particles, as well as that of the photon. Spin electronics has special importance as conventional electronics reaches its physical limitations.Novel sensing, memory and logic devices, which rely on generating, manipulating and detecting the electron's spin, as well as using currents of spin-polarized electrons to manipulate magnetization in the form of magnetic nanoelements and magnetic domain walls, have emerged in recent years.Spin electronic devices in the form of highly sensitive read sensors for magnetic recording have been a key component of high capacity magnetic disk drives for more than a decade: they enabled a vast increase in the storage capacity of disk drives by several orders of magnitude and are key to today's information age.Solid state memory devices such as Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) have recently entered the market. Other exciting possibilities relate to very dense and high performance memory-storage devices such as Racetrack Memory, as well as low power magnetic logic, and applications of spintronic sensing devices such as diagnostic biomagnetic lab-on-a-chip devices. Many of these applications require the integration of magnetic and semiconducting materials and a fundamental understanding of both magnetic and semiconductor physics and technology: this is especially important if spin electronics is to become the electronics of the future.Spin electronics encompasses a multidisciplinary research effort involving magnetism, semiconductor electronics, materials science, chemistry and biology. SPIN aims to provide a forum for the presentation of research and review articles of interest to all researchers in the field.The scope of the journal includes (but is not necessarily limited to) the following topics:MaterialsMetalsHeusler compoundsComplex oxides: antiferromagnetic, ferromagneticDilute magnetic semiconductorsDilute magnetic oxidesHigh performance and emerging magnetic materialsSemiconductor electronicsNanodevicesFabricationCharacterizationSpin injectionSpin transportSpin transfer torqueSpin torque oscillatorsElectrical control of magnetic propertiesOrganic spintronicsOptical phenomena and optoelectronic spin manipulationApplications and devicesNovel memories and logic devicesLab-on-a-chipOthersFundamental and interdisciplinary studiesSpin in low dimensional systemSpin in medical sciencesSpin in other fieldsComputational materials discovery

自旋电子学是利用电子、原子核等基本粒子以及光子自旋的独特性质而迅速发展起来的一门新兴学科。自旋电子具有特殊的重要性，因为传统电子达到其物理极限。近年来出现了新型的传感、存储和逻辑器件，它们依赖于产生、操纵和检测电子的自旋，以及利用自旋极化电子的电流以磁性纳米元件和磁畴壁的形式操纵磁化。自旋电子设备高度敏感的形式读取传感器对磁记录的一个关键组成部分高容量磁盘驱动器超过十年:他们使一个巨大的存储容量的增加磁盘驱动器几个数量级,是当今信息时代的关键。固态存储器如磁随机存取存储器(MRAM)最近进入了市场。其他令人兴奋的可能性涉及非常密集和高性能的内存存储设备，如赛马场存储器，以及低功耗磁逻辑，以及自旋电子传感设备的应用，如诊断生物磁芯片上的实验室设备。这些应用中有许多需要磁性和半导体材料的集成，以及对磁性和半导体物理和技术的基本理解:如果自旋电子学要成为未来的电子学，这一点尤其重要。自旋电子学包括一个多学科的研究努力涉及磁性，半导体电子学，材料科学，化学和生物学。SPIN旨在为该领域的所有研究人员提供一个展示研究成果和评论文章的论坛。该期刊的范围包括(但不一定限于)以下主题:材料金属赫斯勒化合物复合氧化物:反铁磁性、铁磁性稀磁半导体稀磁氧化物高性能新型磁性材料半导体电子产品纳米器件制造描述自旋注入自旋传输自旋转移力矩旋转扭矩振荡电磁特性的电气控制有机自旋电子学光学现象和光电子自旋操纵应用程序和设备新颖的记忆和逻辑器件"其他人基础及跨学科研究在低维系统中自旋医学旋转其他领域的自旋计算材料的发现