Spintronics and Synchrotron Radiation

Having access to the electronic and magnetic properties of spintronic systems is of crucial importance in view of their future technological developments. Our purpose in this chapter is to elaborate how a variety of synchrotron radiation-based measurements provides powerful and often unique techniques to probe them. We first introduce general concepts in spintronics and present some of the important scientific advances achieved in the last 30 years. Then we will describe some of the key investigations using synchrotron radiation concerning voltage control of magnetism, spin-charge conversion and current-driven magnetization dynamics.