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Conduction of spin currents through insulating oxides

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Spintronics is a field of electronics based on using the electron spin instead of its charge. The recent advance in the manipulation of pure spin currents, i.e. angular momentum transfer not associated to conventional charge currents, has opened new opportunities to build spin based devices with low energy consumption. It has also allowed to integrate ferromagnetic insulators in spintronic devices, either as spin sources or spin conductors using their magnetic excitations to propagate a spin signal. Antiferromagnetic insulators belong to another class of materials that can also sustain magnetic excitations, even with a higher group velocity. Hence, they have potential as angular momentum conductors, possibly making faster spin devices. At the opposite end, angular momentum insulators are also required in spintronic circuits. The present letter underlines some essential features relevant for spin current conduction, based on measurements of angular momentum transmission in antiferromagnetic NiO and in the non-magnetic light element insulator SiO$_2$.
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hal-00875774 , version 1 (22-10-2013)

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Christian Hahn, G. de Loubens, V. V. Naletov, J. Ben Youssef, Olivier Klein, et al.. Conduction of spin currents through insulating oxides. 2013. ⟨hal-00875774⟩
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