SPINTRONICS FOR STORAGE DEVICES

Presented By: ARAVIND DATH D C.S-A ROLL NO-15

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CONTENTS
Introduction HDD(Hard Disk Drive) Magnetic properties Vortices Spintronics Spin Transport Spin Relaxation Spintronic Devices Advantages

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Giant Magnetoresistance Future Outlook Conclusion References

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Introduction
A Technology that exploits the magnetic properties of electrons to store and manipulate information in digital form. Magnetic chips that not only store data but can also manipulate data . Researchers have successfully recorded data on it and successfully retrieved data by controlling the spin of electron.

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Spin up and spin down property of magnets are used. Many prototypes regarding spin of electron have been implemented such as Datta Das transistor.

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DATA STORAGE
Read Only

D A T A S T O R A G E

Phase Change

Optical

Magneto optical Holography Spectral hole burning

Floppy

Magnetic
SRAM DRAM MRAM CRAM RRAM

HDD Other

Inductive AMR GMR MTJ

Solid State

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HDD(Hard Disk Drive)

HDD records data by magnetizing ferromagnetic materials directionally. HDD have a read and write head. Each surface is conceptually divided into small regions referred to as magnetic domains. A write head magnetize a region by generating a strong local magnetic field. Iron, cobalt, Nickel and Chromium are used. Reading a signal, Reading no signal, Writing a signal.

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HDD(Hard Disk Drive)

There are two types of recording given perpendicular and parallel recording.

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HDD(Hard Disk Drive)

FM Coding technique is usually followed for storing data. Only a change in magnetic field produces an electric current.
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Magnetic Properties
Lines of force are spins forming Vortices. There are two vortices present at each pole and one is larger than the other. There are vortex which exist within another vortex. The spin can be changed easily by using a magnetic material.

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VORTICES OF

A MAGNET.

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Spintronics
Electrons possess both spins and charges. Functional electronic devices have not been realized in pure metal because they have dimension larger than the mean free-path of electrons. In metallic magnetic material it is easy to control the spin of electrons. Magnetic semi-conductors are those devices where we can control both the spin and charge of electron. Areal recording will increases by using spintronic. Computer Science Engineering 12

Spin Transport
In classical transport one propagates probability and in the case of quantum transport one propagates amplitudes. Transport time is given by t=l2/2D, where l is the length and D is the diffusion constant.

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Spin relaxation
The time take to change a spin from one direction to another. Spin relaxation rate 1/ts =w2Tc

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Giant Magnetoresistance(GMR)
Change in electrical resistance based on whether the magnetization are parallel or anti parallel. Material is made up of vacuum evaporation technique. Multi-layer GMR and spin valve GMR are commonly used. The read write head of a magnetic disk can be made of giant magnetoresistance material.

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Spintronic Devices.

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Datta-Das spin transistor

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Advantages
Faster than HDD. Requires less current for changing the orientation of magnetic field. HDD of size 1.2 petabytes can be made. Dissipate less heat since there is no movement of electron from one end to another.

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Future Outlook
Magnetic RAM chips. High Capacity Hard drives. Spin FET Hard drives faster than currently existing one.

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Conclusion
Spintronic memory will replace our conventional memory system in the future. Spintronic memory will reduce the boot time memory. Will be introduced into the market within three to four years.

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REFERENCES
Nano spintronics for Data storage Author:Yihong Wu M.Chaichian and R.Hagredon, Symmetries in quantum mechanics. Ziese, M and M.J Thornton 2001 Spinn Electronics.

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