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Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor
Nov 25, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Spin-polarized electrons on demand
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where whole ...
Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical- and magnetic- ...
Spin-polarized electrons on demand
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where whole ...
Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology
Apr 03, 2008 |
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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 ...
Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(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 ...
UC San Diego physicists devise viable design for spin-based electronics
Jun 01, 2007 |
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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 ...
Lasers can lengthen quantum bit memory by 1,000 times
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum computers.
Mass-Producing Tunable Magnetic Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 21, 2008 |
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Taking a cue from the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at Stanford University has developed a method of producing unlimited quantities of highly magnetic nanoparticles suitable for use as magnetic resonance ...
Arrowhead Receives Patent on Spintronic Technology for Use in Next-Generation Semiconductor Devices
Apr 14, 2005 |
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Arrowhead Research Corporation announced today the U.S. Patent Office issued U.S. patent 6,879,012, Giant Planar Hall Effect in Epitaxial Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Devices. The patent is exclusively licensed to Nanotechnica, ...
Let there be light: Teaching magnets to do more than just stick around
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- That palm tree magnet commemorating your last vacation is programmed for a simple function - to stick to your refrigerator. Similarly, semiconductors are programmed to convey bits of information small and ...
An Unconventional Metal
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 20, 2008 |
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The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric motors. In this week's issue of the journal Nature (August 21st) ...
Researchers Create Improved Magnetic-Semiconductor Sandwich
Oct 02, 2006 |
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Researchers at Ohio University have created an improved magnetic semiconductor that solves a problem spintronics scientists have been investigating for years.
Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity
Nov 06, 2007 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device.
Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...
