Scientists at Ohio State University have demonstrated a form of plastic computer memory that uses the spin of electrons to read and write data. Credit: US Department of Energy - PNNL The prototype ...

Spintronics, also known as spin electronics, is a rapidly developing field that explores the potential of utilising the spin of electrons in solid-state devices. Spin is one of the three inherent ...

The movement of electrons can have a significantly greater influence on spintronic effects than previously assumed. Until now, a calculation of these effects took, above all, the spin of electrons ...

Spintronics is a relatively new term derived from “spin based electronics”. Spintronics uses the spin of electrons and charge together, rather than charge alone to represent binary data values. The ...

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Engineers have reported advances in so-called 'spintronic' devices that will help lead to a new technology for computing and data storage. They have developed methods to detect signals from spintronic ...

Spintronics—devices that use microscopic magnetism in conjunction with electric current—could lead to computing technology as fast as conventional electronics but much more energy efficient. As such ...

Going beyond traditional electronics in the solid state, it is plausible to think that the next revolution in electronics would be molecular. Until now, the most encouraging candidate poised to ...

Long gone are the days where all our data could fit on a two-megabyte floppy disk. In today's information-based society, the increasing volume of information being handled demands that we switch to ...

Spintronics is a portmanteau that means "spin transport electronics." Traditional transistors rely on electrical states to perform calculations -- a 0 is "off" and a 1 is "on." As process nodes have ...

The emerging technology of spintronics, which utilizes the spin of electrons to store and manipulate data, promises devices that are faster and more energy efficient than conventional electronics, but ...

A new low-power technique for detecting the spin of electrons in a non-magnetic system could aid the development of spintronics devices that work using ferroelectricity rather than ferromagnetism.