Spintronics and Spin Waves: Towards Energy-Efficient and High-Speed Electronics

The exponential growth of electronic devices and data processing has pushed charge-based electronics to their energy and performance limits, with power consumption and heat dissipation becoming critical bottlenecks. As Moore’s Law slows, there is an urgent need for a paradigm shift in our approach towards next-generation computing. Here, I investigate spintronics and spin-wave platforms as potentially transformative solutions for high-speed and low-energy computing. I demonstrate how the collective dynamics of spin waves can be harnessed to realize essential computing building blocks, including communication links, transistors, and memory elements, paving the way for spin-based computing platforms. With recent advances in materials and device engineering, spintronics is poised to overcome the limitations of traditional electronics, driving the next generation of energy-efficient and high-performance computing technologies.

Speaker: Hossein Taghinejad, Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute