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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 ...


Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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 ...


Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...


Researchers create all-electric spintronics

Researchers create all-electric spintronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 3

A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.


The Spin Cycle: Nanoresearch could lead to next generation of transistors

The Spin Cycle: Nanoresearch could lead to next generation of transistors

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, the transistors inside radios, televisions and other everyday items have transmitted data by controlling the movement of the electron’s charge. Scientists now have discovered ...


Researchers Develop Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...


Graphite mimics iron's magnetism

Graphite mimics iron's magnetism

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results ...


Researchers design new graphene-based, nano-material with magnetic properties

New graphene-based nanomaterial with magnetic properties designed

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (18) | comments 4

An international team of researchers has designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create the next generation of electronic devices ...


Let there be light: Teaching magnets to do more than just stick around

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(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 ...


A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was ...


Spintronic -- the new electronic?

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors.


Scientists discover magnetic superatoms

Scientists discover magnetic superatoms

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 7

A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table - that one day may be used to ...


New exotic material could revolutionize electronics

New exotic material could revolutionize electronics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (53) | comments 10

Move over, silicon -- it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence ...


Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1983, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine that could create smaller scale replicas of itself. Today, such a system is still a challenge, but a machine that can produce nanometer-sized ...


French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 16

French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.