Literature

Here is some collection of important references in spintronics, magnetic recording and MRAM.
General references: Issue on Materials for Magnetic Data Storage MRS Bulletin, 31 (5), May 2006.

Spintronic reviews:
Spintronics: A spin-based electronics vision for the future S. A. Wolf, D. D. Awschalom, R. A. Buhrman, J. M. Daughton, S. von Molnar, M. L. Roukes, A. Y. Chtchelkanova, D. M. Treger Science 294: 1488-1495 (2001).

The spin-valve transistor: a review and outlookR. Jansen, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 36, R289 (2003).

Concepts for spin injection into semiconductors –a reviewG. Schmidt, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 38, R107 (2003).

Spintronics-A retrospective and perspective S. A. Wolf, A. Y. Chtchelkanova, and D. M. Treger, IBM J. Res. & Dev. 50, 101 (2006).

Magnetic domain-wall logicD. A. Allwood, G. Xiong, C. C. Faulkner, D. Atkinson, D. Petit, R. P. Cowburn Science 309, 1688 (2005).

Views of Spin transfer torques J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 320(2008).

The emergence of spin electronics in data storage C. Chappert, A. Fertand F. N. Van Dau, Nature Materials 6, 813 (2007).

MRAM, sensors and devices
Magnetic Domain-Wall Racetrack MemoryS.S. P. Parkin, M. Hayashi, L. Thomas, Science 320, 190 (2008).

Magnetic memories: Memory hierarchy and processing perspectivesR. E. Fontana, S. R. Hetzler, J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08N902 (2006).

A 4-Mb toggle MRAM based on a novel bit and switching method B. N. Engel et al., IEEE Trans. Mag. 41, 132 (2005).

Development of the magnetic tunnel junction MRAM at IBM: From first junctions to a 16-Mb MRAM demonstrator chipW. J. Gallagher, S. S. P. Parkin, IBM J. Res. and Dev. 50(1), 5-23 (2006).

1.8 V power supply 16 mb-MRAMswith 42.3% array efficiencyH. Yoda et al., IEEE Trans. Magn. 42, 2724-6 (2006).

Magnetic random access memory (MRAM)Y.K. Zhenget al.,J. Nanoscienceand Nanotechnology 7, 117-137 (2007).

Crossover in heating regimes of thermally assisted magnetic memoriesR. C. Sousa et al., J. of Appl. Phys. 99, 8N904 (2006).

Spin-dependent sensors J. Daughton, Proc. of the IEEE 91, 681-686 (2003).

Spin angular momentum transfer in current-perpendicular nanomagneticjunctions IBM J. Res. and Dev. 50, 81 (2006).

Magnetic Recording
Magnetic recording read head sensor technology J. R. Childress, R. E. Fontana, ComptesRendusPhysique 6, 997-1012 (2005).

Spin Valve Giant MagnetoresistiveSensor Materials for Hard Disk Drives B. A. Gurney et al. in"UltrathinMagnetic Structures IV: Applications of Nanomagnetism" pp 149-174, Heinrich B. & Bland J.A.C., eds, Springer-Verlag2005.

Nanofabricated and self-assembled magnetic structures as data storage media B.D. Terris, T. Thomson J. of Phys. D-Appl. Phys. 38, R199-R222 (2005).
Magnetic Recording: Advancing into the futureA. Moser et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 35, R157 (2002).

Heat-assisted magnetic recordingR. E. Rottmayeret al., IEEE Trans. Magn. 42, 2417 (2006)

Recording on bit-patterned media at densities of 1 Tb/in(2) and beyond H. J. Richter et al., IEEE Trans. Magn. 42, 2255 (2006).

The transition from longitudinal to perpendicular recordingH.J. Richter, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. (2007).