This talk will review my group’s recent progress in generating pure spin supercurrents (1, 2) in superconducting proximity structures and the optimization of magnetic proximity effects in nm-thick s-wave superconductors. In particular, in the first part I will demonstrate spin-triplet pair generation via spin-orbit coupling and magnetic exchange fields1 and in the second part I will demonstrate infinite magnetoresistance in nm-thick layers of an s-wave superconductor on an insulating ferromagnet (3). The results are key to the development of superconducting spintronics (3, 4).

1. K.-R. Jeon et al. Phys. Rev. X 10, 031020 (2020); ibid Nat. Mater. 17, 499–503 (2018).
2. S. Komori et al., Science Advances 7, eabe0128 (2021).
3. J. Linder, J. W. A. Robinson, Nat. Phys. 11, 307–315 (2015).
4. G. Yang, C. Ciccarelli, . J. W. A Robinson, APL Materials 9, 050703 (2021).