Nobel Lecture: Origin, development, and future of spintronics

A Fert - Reviews of modern physics, 2008 - APS
Electrons have a charge and a spin, but until recently, charges and spins have been considered
separately. In conventional electronics, the charges are manipulated by electric fields …

Theory of the perpendicular magnetoresistance in magnetic multilayers

T Valet, A Fert - Physical Review B, 1993 - APS
By starting with the Boltzmann equation, we calculate the transport properties of magnetic
multilayers for currents perpendicular to the layers. Our model takes into account both volume …

Role of anisotropic exchange interactions in determining the properties of spin-glasses

A Fert, PM Levy - Physical Review Letters, 1980 - APS
Recent measurements on Cu Mn spin-glass alloys have revealed that the anisotropy field
maintaining the remanent magnetization in the direction of the initial applied field is strongly …

Magnetic skyrmions: advances in physics and potential applications

A Fert, N Reyren, V Cros - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are small swirling topological defects in the magnetization texture. Their
stabilization and dynamics depend strongly on their topological properties. In most cases, …

[HTML][HTML] Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems

…, JN Coleman, V Nicolosi, L Colombo, A Fert… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional
crystals, and hybrid systems, targeting an evolution in technology, that might lead to impacts …

Nucleation, stability and current-induced motion of isolated magnetic skyrmions in nanostructures

…, V Cros, S Rohart, A Thiaville, A Fert - Nature nanotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin configurations, which usually originate
from chiral interactions known as Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions. Skyrmion lattices were …

The emergence of spin electronics in data storage

C Chappert, A Fert, FN Van Dau - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
Electrons have a charge and a spin, but until recently these were considered separately. In
classical electronics, charges are moved by electric fields to transmit information and are …

Conditions for efficient spin injection from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor

A Fert, H Jaffres - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
We adapt the spin accumulation model of the perpendicular transport in metallic magnetic
multilayers to the issue of spin injection from a ferromagnetic metal (F) into a semiconductor (N…

Giant magnetoresistance of (001) Fe/(001) Cr magnetic superlattices

MN Baibich, JM Broto, A Fert, FN Van Dau, F Petroff… - Physical review …, 1988 - APS
We have studied the magnetoresistance of (001) Fe/(001) Cr superlattices prepared by
molecularbeam epitaxy. A huge magnetoresistance is found in superlattices with thin Cr layers: …

Skyrmions on the track

A Fert, V Cros, J Sampaio - Nature nanotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
… Albert FertFert, unpublished observations; see also Fig. 3b,c and Supplementary
Movies S1,S2,S3). It turns out that from these new calculations (i) metastable (stable) …