Introduction

摘要

The seventh edition of the Spintronics symposium of the SPIE conference gathered more than one hundred speakers in San Diego from Sunday to Thursday, 17-21 August 2014. In line with the previous editions, the Spintronics symposium held in the framework of the Optics+Photonics conference covered most of the hot topics in Spintronics. The conference was also an invaluable opportunity for informal and extremely stimulating discussions between experts and networking in a friendly atmosphere, witnessing for the dynamism of our field of research. These proceedings do not include a full overview of the presentations, but they report a significant part (about 33%) of important results presented at the meeting. The symposium concerns fundamental results in experimental and theoretical physics, and also technological developments. During the last year, we have felt that the MRAM technology is really coming to market, and may have a strong impact on the future of data storage and processing; therefore, we had three focused sessions (8-11) with the participation of key industrial partners, and a key-note opening by Hideo Ohno (Tohoku University). The state of the art in domain wall manipulation and application was presented by S. S. P. Parkin in a keynote lecture. Besides, the program shows the growing importance of the studies and developments about optical manipulation and detection of spins, with a whole session (1) devoted to spin laser, a session on spin photonics (3A), a session based on magnetooptics (7), and two sessions related to optical pumping (2A and 4A).