[C4P] Spintronics-Devices and Circuits

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of 

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on

“Spintronics-Devices and Circuits”

Submission deadline: 30 September, 2021 

Publication date: April 2022

Spintronics is one of the emerging fields for the next-generation nanoscale devices offering better memory and processing capabilities with improved performance levels. It demonstrates great potential in the post-Moore era. Ever since the discovery of Giant Magneto-Resistance (GMR) effect in 1988, spintronics has shown rapid progress. Recent advances have expanded this technology to the entire electronics industry of sensors, memories, oscillators, quantum information processors, computer architecture, brain inspired computing and various other fields. Spintronics is now one of the most researched areas and is on the verge of becoming a mainstream technology. A hard disk drive (HDD) invented by IBM in 1956, now has a global market revenue of approximately $12bn. Other emerging field of application for this technology is magnetic field sensors that showcased a market revenue of ~$19b in 2018. The magnetic memory production at major foundries such as Samsung, Globalfoundries, Western Digital and TSMC marks the adoption of spintronics technology. However, in order to meet the ever-increasing demands of the industry, innovation in terms of modeling, design, materials, processes, circuits and applications are required. This Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices will feature the most recent developments and the state-of-the-art in the field of spintronic devices, circuits and new architectures for high performance.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Materials:

Ferromagnets, Antiferromagnets, 2D material for better spin manipulation and spin logic devices, Heusler alloys, dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS), half-metallic ferromagnet (HMF)

Transport mechanism:

Spin accumulation, injection and detection in spin devices, spin pumping techniques, angular momentum transportation by spin polarized currents, spin waves, magnons, spin hall effect, spin transfer torque, enhancement in spin diffusion length and coherence time

Spintronics devices:

STT-MRAM, SOT-MRAM, VCMA-MRAM, domain-wall, skyrmions, nano-oscillators, sensors etc. Low power and high-speed switching schemes for spintronic devices.

Optoelectronics and Spintronics:

All-optical switching of magnetization, inverse magnetooptical effects, single shot optical switching, modeling circuit and architecture level design for ultra-fast laser excitation

Memories:

High storage density MRAM, enhancement in power efficiency and speed

In-memory computing:

Spintronics based in-memory computing/ processing circuits/architectures and applications

Quantum Computing:

Quantum information processing, protocol for communication, computation and sensing, algorithms, spin qubit, systems and applications, spintronics-based quantum memories

Neuromorphic computing:

Hardware implementation of neural networks, analog and digital, architectures and applications

Fabrication:

Fabrication and characterization of novel materials and devices, hybrid spintronics integration and fabrication

Spintronics based circuits:

Reconfigurable and programmable spintronics based circuits, Security applications including RNG and PUF, ADC/DAC, reliability and power performance analysis of spintronics based devices and circuits

Submission instructions: Please visit the following link to download the templates:
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_templates.html
In your cover letter, please indicate that your submission is for this special issue.
Submission site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ted

The papers must present original material that has not been copyrighted, published or accepted

for publications in any other archival publications, that is not currently being considered for

publications elsewhere, and that will not be submitted elsewhere while under considerations

by the Transactions on Electron Devices.

Guest Editors:

1. Prof. Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, INDIA (Lead Guest Editor)

2. Dr. Sanjeev Aggarwal, Everspin Technologies Inc., USA

3. Prof. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, VCU College of Engineering, USA

4. Prof. Debanjan Bhowmik, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, INDIA

5. Dr. Vivek De, Circuits Research Lab, Intel, USA

6. Dr. Bernard Dieny, SPINTEC, IRIG/CEA Grenoble, FRANCE

7. Prof. Wang Kang, School of Microelectronics, Beihang University, CHINA

8. Prof. S.N. Piramanayagam, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences - Division of Physics & Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE

9. Prof. Kaushik Roy, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue

University, USA

10. Prof. Ashwin A. Tulapukur, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, INDIA