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Multiferroics -- making a switch the electric way

Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(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 ...





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Spintronic -- the new electronic?

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors.


Physicists put a new spin on electrons

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 4

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, ...


Graphene Holds Promise for Spintronics

Graphene Holds Promise for Spintronics

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 0

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 ...


Researchers Control the Spin of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Shell States

Researchers Control the Spin of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Shell States

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have recently demonstrated the ability to control the spin population of the individual quantum shell states of self-assembled indium arsenide (InAs) quantum ...


Molecular Spintronic Action Confirmed in Nanostructure

Molecular Spintronic Action Confirmed in Nanostructure

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made the first confirmed “spintronic” device incorporating organic molecules, a potentially superior approach for innovative electronics ...


Disorder May Be in Order for ‘Spintronic’ Devices

Disorder May Be in Order for ‘Spintronic’ Devices

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Physicists at JILA are using ultrashort pulses of laser light to reveal precisely why some electrons, like ballet dancers, hold their spin positions better than others—work that may help improve spintronic ...


Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...


UC San Diego physicists devise viable design for spin-based electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 0

Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have proposed a design for a semiconductor computer circuit based on the spin of electrons. They say the device would be more scalable and have greater computational ...


New Materials for Making 'Spintronic' Devices

New Materials for Making 'Spintronic' Devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 25, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0

An interdisciplinary group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has devised methods to make a new class of electronic devices based on a property of electrons known ...


Theory and Experiment Collide: Discovery of Phenomenon Important for Future Application of 'Spintronics'

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created Dec 16, 2005 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A few years ago a University of Missouri-Columbia professor and his student had a theory, and a few weeks ago a physicist in California proved it. The unusual part is that neither person knew about the work of the other. ...



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