Perspectives on spintronic diodes

Giovanni Finocchio, Riccardo Tomasello, Bin Fang, Anna Giordano, Vito Puliafito, Mario Carpentieri, Zhongming Zeng

Published 2021-03-25Version 1

Spintronic diodes are emerging as disruptive candidates for impacting several technological applications ranging from the Internet of Things to Artificial Intelligence. In this letter, an overview of the recent achievements on spintronic diodes is briefly presented, underling the major breakthroughs that have led these devices to have the largest sensitivity measured up to date for a diode. For each class of spintronic diodes (passive, active, resonant, non-resonant), we indicate the remaining developments to improve the performances as well as the future directions. We also dedicate the last part of this perspective to new ideas for developing spintronic diodes in multiphysics systems by combining 2-dimensional materials and antiferromagnets.