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UC San Diego physicists devise viable design for spin-based electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 0

Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have proposed a design for a semiconductor computer circuit based on the spin of electrons. They say the device would be more scalable and have greater computational ...


Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor

Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated for the first time the existence of a key magnetic—as opposed to electronic—property of specially ...


Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 03, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

A modern computer contains two different types of components: magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor components, which perform logic operations. A University of Missouri researcher, as part ...


New research suggests the possibility of quantum dot magnetic logic

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created Jan 17, 2006 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (56) | comments 0

A paper published by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers in the January 13 edition of the journal Science reveals the demonstration of logic in a magnetic system, thereby opening the door to all-magnetic inform ...


New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation

New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 1

European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach ...


NEC develops a nonvolatile magnetic flip flop that enables standby-power-free SoCs

NEC develops a nonvolatile magnetic flip flop that enables standby-power-free SoCs

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in demonstrating the operation of a nonvolatile magnetic flip flop (MFF).


New invention that could change design of future memory storage devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 1

A research team at Singapore A*STAR's Data Storage Institute (DSI) has invented a new phase change material that has the potential to change the design of future memory storage devices.


Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and ...


Nano World: Magnet nanostructure for chips

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created Jan 14, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (36) | comments 0

All-magnetic microchips without transistors that could pack more computing power, instantly turn on without need to wait for reboot and change function after they are built could one day develop from a novel device made of ...


The next generation: nanomagnets could replace semiconductors

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 30, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (41) | comments 0

Just as compact discs all but wiped out vinyl records, semiconductors could be on their way out, too. A University of Houston professor has developed a similar ‘disruptive technology,’ using magnetic cellular networks, that ...


NIST demonstrates sustained quantum information processing

Sustained quantum information processing demonstrated

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically ...


Cross-Dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues for Exotic Computing

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutral atoms--having no net electric charge--usually don't act very dramatically around a magnetic field. But by “dressing them up” with light, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaborative ...


Diamonds may be the ultimate MRI probe, say Quantum physicists

Diamonds May Be the Ultimate MRI Probe, Say Quantum Physicists

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl's best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology has recently found that the gems ...


Magnetic Microchips Replaces Electronic Semiconductor

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created Sep 28, 2005 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The combined efforts of researchers from Durham University, Imperial College, London and the University of Sheffield have fructified. Till now the basic computer is usually made by using semiconductor electronics. The researchers ...


Spinning into the future of data storage

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have improved their understanding of the inner workings of our computers and mp3 players, thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic spintronics'.