![]() Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could enable development of faster computersRoland Kawakami's lab proposes a simple technique for controlling electron spin and current flow
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Precise Alignment to Quantum Dots“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 StepResearchers 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 matterA 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 MemoryComputer 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 RealityResearchers 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 SpintronicsGraphene 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'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 siliconScientists 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 atomsScientists 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 SubstratesUniversity 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 electronicsSpintronics 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 MangetoresistanceExperiments 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 electronicsSpintronics 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 siliconScientists 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 ... |