MvL-Kolloquium: Prof. Dr. Albert Fert

Spintronics is a recently emerged field of research which exploits the influence of the electron spin on electronic transport. It is mainly known for the large increase of the hard disc capacity by read heads based on the “giant magnetoresistance”, but it has also revealed many other interesting effects. After an introduction on the fundamentals of spintronics, I will review some of the most promising directions of today, which includes the study of the spin transfer phenomena, spintronics with semiconductors, spintronics with carbon nanotubes or graphene, neuromorphic devices etc.