Emerging Spintronic Materials and Functionalities

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Abstract
The explosive growth of the information era has put forward urgent requirements for ultrahigh‐speed and extremely efficient computations. In direct contrary to charge‐based computations, spintronics aims to use spins as information carriers for data storage, transmission, and decoding, to help fully realize electronic device miniaturization and high integration for next‐generation computing technologies. Currently, many novel spintronic materials have been developed with unique properties and multifunctionalities, including organic semiconductors (OSCs), organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHPs), and 2D materials (2DMs). These materials are useful to fulfill the demand for developing diverse and advanced spintronic devices. Herein, these promising materials are systematically reviewed for advanced spintronic applications. Due to the distinct chemical and physical structures of OSCs, OIHPs, and 2DMs, their spintronic properties (spin transport and spin manipulation) are discussed separately. In addition, some multifunctionalities due to photoelectric and chiral‐induced spin selectivity (CISS) are overviewed, including the spin‐filter effect, spin‐photovoltaics, spin‐light emitting devices, and spin‐transistor functions. Subsequently, challenges and future perspectives of using these multifunctional materials for the development of advanced spintronics are presented.
Funding Information
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (52250008, 52050171, 51973043, 22175047, 52103203, 52103338, 91963126)
  • Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (4222087, 2222086)
  • Government of Shandong Province (ZR2020ME070)
  • China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M690802)
  • Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS201907)

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