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optospintronics

optospintronics noun: the (study of the) interaction of light with spin polarization (spintronics).

Noun

optospintronics (uncountable)

  1. The (study of the) interaction of light with spin polarization (spintronics)
    • An emerging branch of electronics, the optospintronics, would be highly boosted if the control of magnetic order by light is implemented in magnetic semiconductors nanostructures being compatible with the actual technology.2016, I. Lorite, Y. Kumar, P. Esquinazi, S. Friedländer, A. Pöppl, T. Michalsky, J. Meijer, M. Grundmann, T. Meyer, I. Estrela-Lopis, “Photo-enhanced magnetization in Fe-doped ZnO nanowires”, in arXiv

Origin of optospintronics

From opto- + spintronics.

Questions about optospintronics

What does optospintronics mean?
Optospintronics means the (study of the) interaction of light with spin polarization (spintronics).
What part of speech is optospintronics?
Optospintronics is a noun.

Words near optospintronics in the dictionary

  1. optoporation
  2. optoporations
  3. optosensing
  4. optospectroscopic
  5. optospintronic
  6. optospintronics
  7. optostimulation
  8. optostimulations
  9. optotag
  10. optotagged
  11. optotagging

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