Superconducting Spintronics

@inproceedings{Linder2015SuperconductingS,
  title={Superconducting Spintronics},
  author={Jacob Linder and Jason W. A. Robinson},
  year={2015}
}
Traditional studies that combine spintronics and superconductivity have mainly focused on the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles into superconducting materials. However, a complete synergy between superconducting and magnetic orders turns out to be possible through the creation of spin-triplet Cooper pairs, which are generated at carefully engineered superconductor interfaces with ferromagnetic materials. Currently, there is intense activity focused on identifying materials combinations… Expand
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