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The future of graphene

The future of graphene

...length, even at room temperature, which makes it an interesting candidate for spintronics. "Again, this doesn't need a band gap, so we are not... Read more

15 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff

IBM stores one bit of data using 12 atoms

IBM has developed a method to store one bit of data in an array of 12 atoms, rather than the million atoms currently needed, but the method requires expensive gear and is hard to translate to mass manufacturing Read more

13 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Room temp spintronics breakthrough in Japan

...me that he liked to say "room temperature" in the hearing of spintronics researchers, just to see their faces fall. But increasingly, spintronics researchers are... Read more

21 September, 2011

112-second nuclear spin memory: is spintronics going mainstream

Spintronics researchers from University College London, the University of Utah and Florida State... Read more

20 December, 2010

Room temperature spintronics? New research hints at the holy grail

Room temperature spintronics is one of those things that, like military intelligence, has been impossible... Read more

18 August, 2010

Impure thoughts to improve spintronics materials

...controversy over the usefulness of the material in the emerging field of spintronics. Where traditional electronics exploits the charge carrying properties of electrons, spintronics looks... Read more

28 February, 2012

Buckyballs get spintronics cash injection from ERC

...forms of carbon are still making waves in the emerging field of spintronics. So says researcher Michel de Jong, based at the University of Twente... Read more

22 January, 2012

NEC claims spintronics memory breakthrough

...have developed the world's first content addressable memory system that uses spintronics to store data even when there is no standby power. Spintronics is... Read more

13 June, 2011

Spintronics boosted by efficient pumping technique

...and down spins in opposite directions", and thus is the key to spintronics. Spintronics promises to revolutionise electronics, especially information transmission systems, and make possible... Read more

24 May, 2011

US DoD bestows $14.5m on spintronics and QC research

...14.5million to the UC Santa Barbara, specifically to fund research into spintronics and new nano-scale chips. Of the total sum, $7.5 million... Read more

3 May, 2011

Hitachi targets spintronics with R&D boost

...responsibility for staking the company’s claim in the emerging field of spintronics – the next evolutionary step up from traditional electronics. Spintronics has the... Read more

20 January, 2011

Ohio scientists create new spintronics device

...memory device that stores and reads data using the spin of electrons (spintronics). The team built the device to test a new hybrid organic/magnetic... Read more

11 August, 2010

Record silicon spin alignment, and at room temperature

Researchers at the University of Utah have reported room temperature spintronics in silicon. They describe using a spintronic transistor to align the magnetic... Read more

16 March, 2011

Directing magnetic molecules for quantum computing fun and profit...?

A single molecule magnet could boost the emerging field of spintronics now that researchers in Italy have shown it is possible to deposit... Read more

29 October, 2010

Magnetic carbon? Mind bending graphene strikes again

...read that right: they have magnetised carbon. Enough to be useful in spintronics, perhaps. According to The Engineer, the research team were able to magnetise... Read more

11 January, 2012

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