Spin electronics is a rapidly emerging field which is based on taking advantage of the unique properties of the spin of the electron, the nucleus and other fundamental particles, as well as that of the photon. Spin electronics has special importance as conventional electronics reaches its physical limitations.Novel sensing, memory and logic devices, which rely on generating, manipulating and detecting the electron's spin, as well as using currents of spin-polarized electrons to manipulate magnetization in the form of magnetic nanoelements and magnetic domain walls, have emerged in recent years.Spin electronic devices in the form of highly sensitive read sensors for magnetic recording have been a key component of high capacity magnetic disk drives for more than a decade: they enabled a vast increase in the storage capacity of disk drives by several orders of magnitude and are key to today's information age.Solid state memory devices such as Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) have recently entered the market. Other exciting possibilities relate to very dense and high performance memory-storage devices such as Racetrack Memory, as well as low power magnetic logic, and applications of spintronic sensing devices such as diagnostic biomagnetic lab-on-a-chip devices. Many of these applications require the integration of magnetic and semiconducting materials and a fundamental understanding of both magnetic and semiconductor physics and technology: this is especially important if spin electronics is to become the electronics of the future.Spin electronics encompasses a multidisciplinary research effort involving magnetism, semiconductor electronics, materials science, chemistry and biology. SPIN aims to provide a forum for the presentation of research and review articles of interest to all researchers in the field.The scope of the journal includes (but is not necessarily limited to) the following topics:MaterialsMetalsHeusler compoundsComplex oxides: antiferromagnetic, ferromagneticDilute magnetic semiconductorsDilute magnetic oxidesHigh performance and emerging magnetic materialsSemiconductor electronicsNanodevicesFabricationCharacterizationSpin injectionSpin transportSpin transfer torqueSpin torque oscillatorsElectrical control of magnetic propertiesOrganic spintronicsOptical phenomena and optoelectronic spin manipulationApplications and devicesNovel memories and logic devicesLab-on-a-chipOthersFundamental and interdisciplinary studiesSpin in low dimensional systemSpin in medical sciencesSpin in other fieldsComputational materials discovery

自旋電子學是利用電子、原子核等基本粒子以及光子自旋的獨特性質而迅速發展起來的一門新興學科。自旋電子具有特殊的重要性，因為傳統電子達到其物理極限。近年來出現了新型的傳感、存儲和邏輯器件，它們依賴于產生、操縱和檢測電子的自旋，以及利用自旋極化電子的電流以磁性納米元件和磁疇壁的形式操縱磁化。自旋電子設備高度敏感的形式讀取傳感器對磁記錄的一個關鍵組成部分高容量磁盤驅動器超過十年:他們使一個巨大的存儲容量的增加磁盤驅動器幾個數量級,是當今信息時代的關鍵。固態存儲器如磁隨機存取存儲器(MRAM)最近進入了市場。其他令人興奮的可能性涉及非常密集和高性能的內存存儲設備，如賽馬場存儲器，以及低功耗磁邏輯，以及自旋電子傳感設備的應用，如診斷生物磁芯片上的實驗室設備。這些應用中有許多需要磁性和半導體材料的集成，以及對磁性和半導體物理和技術的基本理解:如果自旋電子學要成為未來的電子學，這一點尤其重要。自旋電子學包括一個多學科的研究努力涉及磁性，半導體電子學，材料科學，化學和生物學。SPIN旨在為該領域的所有研究人員提供一個展示研究成果和評論文章的論壇。該期刊的范圍包括(但不一定限于)以下主題:材料金屬赫斯勒化合物復合氧化物:反鐵磁性、鐵磁性稀磁半導體稀磁氧化物高性能新型磁性材料半導體電子產品納米器件制造描述自旋注入自旋傳輸自旋轉移力矩旋轉扭矩振蕩電磁特性的電氣控制有機自旋電子學光學現象和光電子自旋操縱應用程序和設備新穎的記憶和邏輯器件"其他人基礎及跨學科研究在低維系統中自旋醫學旋轉其他領域的自旋計算材料的發現