File:2011 Dietze SpinBasedDigitalLogic.pdf

Abstract: With the use of personal computers and other electronics becoming more wide spread, energy consumption of these devices is becoming a large portion of all electricity used. Spin-based electronics is a solution that could greatly reduce this problem in the near future, while allowing us to reduced integrated circuitry size. A review of "spintronics" will be given, including recent work of generating pure spin currents and spin injection into semiconductors. Finally, a scheme for creating pure spin-based digital logic devices will be discussed.