optospintronics

English

Etymology

opto- +‎ spintronics

Noun

optospintronics (uncountable)

1. (physics) The (study of the) interaction of light with spin polarization (spintronics)
   • 2016, I. Lorite, Y. Kumar, P. Esquinazi, S. Friedländer, A. Pöppl, T. Michalsky, J. Meijer, M. Grundmann, T. Meyer, I. Estrela-Lopis, “Photo-enhanced magnetization in Fe-doped ZnO nanowires”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     An emerging branch of electronics, the optospintronics, would be highly boosted if the control of magnetic order by light is implemented in magnetic semiconductors nanostructures being compatible with the actual technology.

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