Market Trends of Spintronics Industry
Semiconductor-based Devices are expected to Witness Major Growth
- According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and WSTS, 2023 semiconductor sales were expected to reach USD 515.1 billion worldwide. Semiconductors are crucial components of electronic devices, and the industry is highly competitive. The year-on-year decline rate in 2023 was 10.3 percent, although a swift recovery is expected in 2024. The growing semiconductor industry is expected to aid the studied market's growth.
- Spin diode, spin filter, and spin field-effect transistor are considered for the market study. A spin diode is a semiconductor device that can measure the current flow in an electrical circuit. Several trends are shaping the spin diode industry. In the case of memory applications, spin diodes are being explored and offer potential advantages in terms of their nonvolatility, speed of access to power, and energy savings.
- Spin filters play an essential role in different applications in spintronics, which uses electron spin to perform information processing, storage, and manipulation. These instruments are vital for generating, modifying, and measuring spin-polarized currents, making them a fundamental element in spintronic technology's evolution.
- Currently, spin filter devices based on quantum dots are gaining traction. Adhering to this, in January 2023, an international team of scientists demonstrated a leap in preserving the quantum coherence of quantum dot spin qubits as part of the global push for practical quantum networks and quantum computers. The application of these technologies will transform many industries and research efforts, from the safety of information transfer to the search for materials or chemicals with new properties, such as measurements of fundamental phenomena that require accurate time synchronization between sensors.
- According to the American Institute of Physics, high spin-injection-efficiency (SIE) and thermal spin-filter-effect (SFE) from a magnetic material to a barrier material are crucial to the high performance of a spintronic device and a spin caloritronic device, respectively.
- Spin field effect transistors (Spin-FET) are an iconic spintronic device class exploiting gate-tuned spin-orbit interaction in semiconductor channels interposed between the ferromagnetic source and drain contacts to elicit transistor functionality. Recently, a novel type of spin-FET has been suggested. It could lead to exciting analog applications such as frequency multiplication due to its unique oscillatory transfer characteristics in the form of gate-tuned strain on quantum materials.
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Asia Pacific is Expected to Hold a Major Market Share
- An increase in the number of research activities related to spintronics, global dominance in semiconductor manufacturing, foundries, and lead in global industries such as electronic product manufacturing are some of the major factors expanding the scope of spintronics technologies in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Countries like China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea are prominent investors in the market studied due to increasing investments in research related to spintronics technologies. In addition to that, countries like India and others in Southeast Asia are emerging as significant end users for these technologies due to the high level of manufacturing.
- The demand for spintronics is on the rise for the region, owing to the rising demand for scientific, industrial, and medical applications. The major market players are trying to expand their business in other regions to increase their market share and profitability. For instance, in August of 2023, scientists at S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, developed the first-of-its-kind 2D Composite Quantum Material that exhibits the exotic quantum property of Rashba splitting, which is useful for Spintronic devices such as Spintronic transistors & Diodes. The material can interface with 2D substrates (Graphene, for example) in Spintronic Devices such as Spin Transistors, Spin Diodes, and Spin Filters that exploit the quantum property of electron spin for higher performance.
- Moreover, The semiconductor industry in the Asia-Pacific region is majorly driven by China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, which together constitute around 35% of the global semiconductor market revenue. South Korea has more than 20,000 semiconductor-related companies, including 2650 semiconductor equipment enterprises, 4078 semiconductor material enterprises, and 369 IC manufacturing enterprises. The estimated growth of the electronic industry in the Asia-Pacific region is higher compared to other regions.
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