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Synthetic antiferromagnetic spintronics

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Spintronic and nanomagnetic devices often derive their functionality from layers of different materials and the interfaces between them. We discuss the opportunities that arise from synthetic antiferromagnets consisting of two or more ferromagnetic layers that are separated by metallic spacers or tunnel barriers and have antiparallel magnetizations.

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R.A.D. is supported by the Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), the European Research Council (ERC), and is part of the D-ITP consortium, a program of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) that is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. K.-J.L. was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (NRF-2015M3D1A1070465, NRF-2017R1A2B2006119). This work was in part supported by EU FET Open RIA Grant no. 766566.

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    R. A. Duine

  2. Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    R. A. Duine

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

    Kyung-Jin Lee

  4. KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

    Kyung-Jin Lee

  5. Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Stuart S. P. Parkin

  6. IBM Research — Almaden, San Jose, CA, USA

    Stuart S. P. Parkin

  7. Institute of Physics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Stuart S. P. Parkin

  8. Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    M. D. Stiles

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Duine, R.A., Lee, KJ., Parkin, S.S.P. et al. Synthetic antiferromagnetic spintronics. Nature Phys 14, 217–219 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0050-y

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