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A flood of spin current

For more than 50 years, the International Conference on Magnetism series has been inspiring researchers in the field. At the latest meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, the control exerted by nanostructured devices over magnetic properties was the centre of attention.

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Figure 1: Interacting charge and spin currents.

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Maekawa, S. A flood of spin current. Nature Mater 8, 777–778 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2539

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