Nanoscale organic spintronics

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"Spintronics" and "organic electronics" are two emerging frontiers of modern electronics. Spintronics aims to harness the spin degree of freedom of charge carriers (instead of traditional charge degree of freedom) in semiconductors to realize novel device functionalities. These include low power computing, non-volatile memories and ultra-sensitive magnetic field sensors. Organic electronics, on the other hand, offers mechanically flexible, optically active and inexpensive devices which have found myriad applications in portable "roll up" displays and lighting, electronic papers, smart cards, organic labels and tags, smart textiles, solar cells and batteries. The goal of the proposed research program is to blend spintronics and organic electronics to realize a new class of "organic-spintronic" nanodevices. These devices will integrate the attractive material properties of organic semiconductors with spintronic functionalities.