optospintronics

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English

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Etymology

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From opto- +‎ spintronics.

Noun

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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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