News tagged with spin
New technology may cool the laptop, prof says (w/ Video)
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist, says Jairo Sinova, a Texas A&M University physics professor.
Researchers create all-electric spintronics
Oct 27, 2009 |
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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
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(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 ...
SKoreans demonstrate spin-injected field effect transistor
Sep 18, 2009 |
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South Korean scientists said Friday they had demonstrated a spin-injected field effect transistor in a high-mobility InAs heterostructure.
Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...
New exotic material could revolutionize electronics
Jun 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access
May 31, 2009 |
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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.
Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage
May 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and ...
Super-efficient Transistor Material Predicted
May 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by condensed-matter theorists at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory points to a material that could one day be used to ...
Controllable double quantum dots and Klein tunneling in nanotubes
May 14, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Kavli Institute of NanoScience in Delft are the first to have successfully captured a single electron in a highly tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. This was made possible by a new approach for ...
Physicists put a new spin on electrons
Apr 15, 2009 |
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In the first demonstration of its kind, researchers at the University of British Columbia have controlled the spin of electrons using a ballistic technique--bouncing electrons through a microscopic channel of precisely constructed, ...
Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...
New MRI signaling method could picture disease metabolism in action
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer.
Spin cycle: a new kind of washer (Video)
Feb 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In many developing countries, electricity is unreliable or unavailable and water must be carried by hand, so conventional modern washing machines are not an option. Washing clothes can take ...
Quantum Twist: Electrons Mimic Presence of Magnetic Field
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists led by a Princeton University group recently discovered that on the surface of certain materials collective arrangements of electrons move in ways that ...
