Researchers race ahead with latest spintronics achievement

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This silicon spin chip made by UD researchers contains more than a dozen tiny spin-transport devices. Credit: Kathy F. AtkinsonUniversity of Delaware
This silicon spin chip made by UD researchers contains more than a dozen tiny spin-transport devices. Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson/University of Delaware

In a rapid follow-up to their achievement as the first to demonstrate how an electron's spin can be electrically injected, controlled and detected in silicon, electrical engineers from the University of Delaware and Cambridge NanoTech now show that this quantum property can be transported a marathon distance in the world of microelectronics-- through an entire silicon wafer.


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