Data Storage: Review of Heusler Compounds

TL;DR

This review discusses the promising magnetic properties of Heusler compounds and their applications in data storage devices, highlighting recent advances, challenges, and future research directions in spintronics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of Heusler compounds' roles in magnetic data storage and discusses challenges and solutions for their integration into devices.

Findings

Heusler compounds enhance magnetic data storage device performance.

Challenges include material stability and integration issues.

Potential solutions involve material engineering and device design improvements.

Abstract

In the recent decade, the family of Heusler compounds has attracted tremendous scientific and technological interest in the field of spintronics. This is essentially due to their exceptional magnetic properties, which qualify them as promising functional materials in various data-storage devices, such as giant-magnetoresistance spin valves, magnetic tunnel junctions, and spin-transfer torque devices. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review on the applications of the Heusler family in magnetic data storage. In addition to their important roles in the performance improvement of these devices, we also try to point out the challenges as well as possible solutions, of the current Heusler-based devices. We hope that this review would spark further investigation efforts into efficient incorporation of this eminent family of materials into data storage applications by fully arousing their intrinsic potential.