Foreword Special Issue on Spintronics-Devices and Circuits

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to introduce this special issue on spintronics-devices and circuits to the ieee transactions on electron devices readership. This issue features research that addresses the important and timely topics related to spintronic devices, circuits, and new architectures for low power applications. Spintronics is one of the emerging fields for the next-generation nano-electronic devices that offer solutions for memory and energy-efficient circuits and systems for data-intensive processing applications. Recent advances have expanded this technology to the entire microelectronics community in the domains of sensors, memories, oscillators, quantum information, processors, and computer architecture. These advancements in spintronics have shown great promise for stochastic and neuromorphic computing, in-memory computing, and data security applications. However, these applications are constrained by the challenges related to low spin efficiency, device reliability, high power consumption, low processing speed, and large area overhead. This special issue has been organized to bring together researchers and experts to address these technological challenges. © 1963-2012 ieee.