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Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could enable development of faster computers

Jun 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 43 vote(s) | pda version

Roland Kawakami's lab proposes a simple technique for controlling electron spin and current flow
Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change ...


Precise Alignment to Quantum Dots

May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 33 vote(s) | pda version

“Precise lithographic alignment to site-controlled quantum dots is of major importance for numerous nano-photonic, nano-electronic and nano-spintronic devices,” Sven Höfling tells PhysOrg.com.


Creating Highly Sought Magnetic Nanoparticles in One Step

May 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a one-step technique for producing a class of magnetic nanoparticles that could be used in everything from biomedical applications to data storage. ...


Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter

Apr 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 80 vote(s) | pda version

A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that one of the most intriguing phenomena in condensed-matter physics -- known as the quantum Hall effect -- can occur in nature in a way that no one ...


Researchers Move Closer To New Class of Memory

Apr 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 86 vote(s) | pda version

Computer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive could be closer than you think, thanks to a team of IBM scientists.


Physicists Bring Quantum Computing Closer to Reality

Mar 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 42 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant advancements in understanding a fundamental problem ...


Graphene Holds Promise for Spintronics

Feb 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s) | pda version

Graphene is a nanomaterial which combines a very simple atomic structure with intriguingly complex and largely unexplored physics. Since its first isolation about four years ago, researchers suggest a large ...


Human genetic variation -- Science's 'Breakthrough of the Year'

Dec 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | pda version

In 2007, researchers were dazzled by the degree to which genomes differ from one human to another and began to understand the role of these variations in disease and personal traits. Science and its publisher, AAAS, ...


Scientists generate, modulate, and electrically detect pure spin currents in silicon

Dec 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have generated, modulated and electrically detected a pure spin current in silicon, the semiconductor used most widely in the electronic device industry. Magnetic ...


Physicists pin down spin of surface atoms

Sep 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 26 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists who dream of shrinking computers to the nanoscale look to atomic spin as one possible building block for both processor and memory, yet setting the spin of an atom, let alone measuring it, has been ...


Method Safely Deposits Novel Metal Oxide Thin Films on Substrates

Sep 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s) | pda version

University at Buffalo chemists have developed a novel way to grow chemically pure, zinc oxide thin films characterized by dense, bristle-like nanostructures and a new method for depositing them on temperature-sensitive ...


Spinning a new horizon for electronics

Aug 22, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | pda version

Spintronics has the potential to have as profound an impact on electronics as the development of the transistor had 50 years ago.


New Clues to Mechanism for Colossal Mangetoresistance

Aug 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 45 vote(s) | pda version

Experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory shed new light on some materials' ability to dramatically change their electrical resistance in the presence of an external magnetic ...


Spinning a new horizon for electronics

Aug 01, 2007 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | pda version

Spintronics has the potential to have as profound an impact on electronics as the development of the transistor had 50 years ago.


NRL scientists demonstrate efficient electrical spin injection into silicon

Jul 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have efficiently injected a current of spin-polarized electrons from a ferromagnetic metal contact into silicon, producing a large electron spin polarization ...


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