Fabrication of Inorganic-Organic Spintronic Devices.

Marsh, Daniel

Recently, a new field has emerged, called spintronics or sometimes magnetoelectronics, which combine both the spin and charge of electrons to obtain devices with new functionality and increased performance. The advantages of these new devices would be nonvolatility, increased data processing speed, decreased electric power consumption, and increased transistor density compared with conventional semiconductor devices. Recently spin polarized injection has been demonstrated in organic semiconductor OLEDs based on sexithienyl and CMR manganite, [La.sub.2]/3[Sr.sub.1]/3Mn[O.sub.3] (LSMO). Tri-layers structure of ferromagnetic/organic/ferromagnetic devices has been made using thermal evaporation, pulsed laser deposition, and photolithography techniques. In this presentation our recent research activities on the fabrication and characterization of various inorganic-organic spintronic devices will be discussed in details.

* Fadigal, L., K. Temitopel, T. Kehl (1), K. Ghosh (1) and S. Guha (2). (1) Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science, Southwest Missouri State University and (2) Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia.