Nanoscale organic spintronics

“自旋电子学”和“有机电子学”是现代电子学的两个新兴前沿。自旋电子学旨在利用半导体中载流子的自旋自由度（而不是传统的电荷自由度）来实现新的器件功能。这些技术包括低功耗计算、非易失性存储器和超灵敏磁场传感器。另一方面，有机电子产品提供了机械柔性、光学活性和廉价的设备，这些设备已经在便携式“卷式”显示器和照明、电子纸、智能卡、有机标签和标签、智能纺织品、太阳能电池和电池中得到了无数的应用。提出的研究计划的目标是将自旋电子学和有机电子学相结合，以实现一类新的“有机自旋电子学”纳米器件。这些装置将整合有机半导体诱人的材料特性与自旋电子功能。

"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.