Oxides have become a key ingredient for new concepts of electronic devices. To a large
extent, this is due to the profusion of new physics and novel functionalities arising from …

The performance of spintronics depends on the spin polarization of the current. In this study
half-metallic Co-based full-Heusler alloys and a spin filtering device (SFD) using a …

Concomitant with the development of metal-based spintronics in the late 1980s and 1990s,
important advances were made on the growth of high-quality oxide thin films and …

The opportunity of spinel ferrites in nonvolatile memory device applications has been
demonstrated by the resistive switching performance characteristics of a Pt/NiFe2O4/Pt …

Nickel ferrite (NiFe2O4) nanoparticles with an average crystallite size of about 8.6 nm were
prepared by mechanochemical synthesis (mechanosynthesis). In-field Mössbauer …

The search for novel functional materials is an extremely active field and to this purpose
transition metal oxides have been under scrutiny for more than twenty years now. Their …

We apply the self-interaction corrected local spin density approximation to study the
electronic structure and magnetic properties of the spinel ferrites Mn Fe 2 O 4, Fe 3 O 4, Co …

This paper presents a review of the research which is focused on ferrite thin films for
spintronics. First, I will describe the potential of ferrite layers for the generation of spin …

Ferrimagnetic insulator materials are the enabling technology for the development of next‐
generation magnetic devices with low power consumption, high operation speed, and high …

Single crystal or textured growth with preferred orientation of transition-metal oxide thin films
is highly desirable for their application in technological devices. Commercially available …