News tagged with spin
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 ...
Spin-polarized electrons on demand
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where whole ...
Spin-polarized electrons on demand
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where whole ...
Researchers Observe Magnus Effect in Light for First Time
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have become the first to observe the Magnus effect in light, potentially opening a new avenue for controlling light in nanometer-scale ...
Quantum computing spins closer
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes ...
Detecting tiny twists with a nanomachine
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule amounts of twisting or torque in a metallic nanowire. This device, ...
New spintronics effect could lead to magnetic batteries
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have recently discovered that heating one side of a magnetized nickel-iron rod causes electrons to rearrange themselves according to their spins. This so-called "spin Seebeck effect" ...
Toshiba Launches 1.8 inch 250Gb SATA Hard Drive
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Toshiba has announced their new MKxx29GSG series 1.8-inch SATA Hard drives, including the 1.8-inch 250GB(MK2529GSG) hard drive, which is the first in the industry.
Moving Quarks Help Solve Proton Spin Puzzle
Sep 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New theory work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the proton is the result of the movement of its building blocks: ...
New Speed Record for Magnetic Memories
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment carried out at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has realized spin torque switching of a nanomagnet as fast as the fundamental speed limit allows. Using this so-called ballistic ...
Toward Plastic Spin Transistors
Aug 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah physicists successfully controlled an electrical current using the "spin" within electrons – a step toward building an organic "spin transistor": a plastic semiconductor ...
Now That's Cool: Engineers Out to Thaw the Mysteries of Ice
Aug 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Ye canna change the laws of physics!" Scotty warned Captain Kirk on Star Trek. But engineers and physicists at the University of Maryland may rewrite one of them.
Einstein was right: Unique stellar system provides 'laboratory' for testing relativity
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Researchers at McGill University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, via observations ...
Could better spin injection lead to a quantum information device?
Jun 30, 2008 |
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One of the more promising types of materials for use in spintronics today is the class of metal alloys known as Heusler alloys. These alloys are named after a German engineer, and might be useful in technology in which electron ...
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