News tagged with spin injection

Moving forward, spin goes sideways

Building electronic devices that work without needing to actually transport electrons is a goal of spintronics researchers, since this could lead to: reduced power consumption, lower levels of signal noise, faster ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

UC Riverside physicists pave the way for graphene-based spin computer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have taken an important step forward in developing a "spin computer" by successfully achieving "tunneling spin injection" into graphene.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

SKoreans demonstrate spin-injected field effect transistor

South Korean scientists said Friday they had demonstrated a spin-injected field effect transistor in a high-mobility InAs heterostructure.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3




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New imaging techniques prove valuable tools to assess stroke risk

(Medical Xpress) -- Vanderbilt radiologists are rolling out powerful new imaging techniques that provide clearer pictures of the delicate ebb and flow of blood through brain tissue in patients at risk for stroke.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Canadian firm bids to commercialize fusion reactor

In the race against world governments and the wealthiest companies to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor, a small, innovative Canadian firm is hoping to bottle and sell the sun's energy.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 79

Cosmic particle accelerators get things going

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Cluster satellites have discovered that cosmic particle accelerators are more efficient than previously thought. The discovery has revealed the initial stages of acceleration for the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team controls thermal fluctuations with spin current

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the University of Muenster, and West Virginia University have demonstrated control of magnetic thermal fluctuations ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Form and function: New MRI technique to diagnose or rule out Alzheimer's disease

On the quest for safe, reliable and accessible tools to accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found a new way of diagnosing and tracking ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers work with platelet-rich plasma to heal chronic wounds in veterans

(Medical Xpress) -- During the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, blast injuries resulting from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and roadsides bombs took countless lives and left thousands of soldiers ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spin lasers in the fast lane: New concept for ultrafast lasers developed

Electrical engineers in Bochum, Germany, have succeeded in developing a new concept for ultrafast semiconductor lasers. The researchers make clever use of the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, called spin, to successfully ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Physicists to develop new way of electronic computing

The University of California, Riverside has received a $1.85 million grant to develop a new way of computing that is beyond the scope of conventional silicon electronics.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Generation of spin current by acoustic wave spin pumping

Tohoku University, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) announced on August 22, 2011 that Kenichi Uchida, a PhD student, and Professor Eiji Saitoh of Tohoku University and their ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Simulating turbulent combustion speeds design

Air and fuel mix violently during turbulent combustion. The ferocious mixing needed to ignite fuel and sustain its burning is governed by the same fluid dynamics equations that depict smoke swirling lazily ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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