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Nature Materials 8, 91 - 93 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmat2366

Spintronics: Organics strike back

Valy Vardeny1

  1. Z. Valy Vardeny is in the Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
    e-mail: val@physics.utah.edu


The spin injection efficiency from a ferromagnetic electrode into an organic layer has been successfully probed by two purpose-made techniques. The observed spin diffusion lengths of tens of nanometres hold promise for potential spintronics applications.

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