Welcome to the Future Spintronics Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan

The Future Spintronics laboratory represents a center for Materials Science located in the Physics Building at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. This lab will focus on the study of electronic properties of new materials for use in creating new types of electronic devices.

For Current Projects and available equipment see Laboratory Research

Spintronics and Diluted magnetic semiconductor systems

• Creating devices that use electron spin in addition to electric charge to carry information.
• Study of spin injection, transport, and detection in semiconductor structure.
• Development of spin-transistors, spin-valves, spin-LEDs, and MRAM.

Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

• Tools to study the surface and electronic properties of materials.
• Obtain atomic-scale images of surfaces accurate to a fraction of a nanometer.
• Direct measurement of the HOMO-LUMO gap of single molecules.

Organic Semiconductor systems

• Organic semiconductor materials offer possibilities for devices with new properties.
• Fabrication of high performance organic thin film devices, TFFETs, LEDs, OLETs, and OPVs.
• Study of the electronic structure of organic semiconductor materials.

X-ray Spectroscopy

• The tools used to study the electronic structure of new materials.
• Determination of HOMO and LUMO levels of organic and polymeric molecular systems.
• Probe unoccupied and occupied density of states of advanced materials using XAS, XES, and RIXS techniques.

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