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 ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered that placing magnetic films on atomically thin molybdenum ...

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Conventional electronics process information leveraging the electrical charge of electrons. Over the past few decades, some ...

(Nanowerk News) Our data-driven world demands more—more capacity, more efficiency, more computing power. To meet society’s insatiable need for electronic speed, physicists have been pushing the ...

In physics and materials science, the term "spin chirality" refers to an asymmetry in the arrangement of spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of particles) in magnetic materials. This asymmetry ...

Artist’s impression of the quantum spin Hall effect in a graphene-based spintronic device, integrated in a chip. The blue and red spheres are spin-up and spin-down electrons traveling along the edge ...

Spintronic devices have rapidly emerged as a key area of innovation in condensed matter physics, materials science, and electrical engineering. By harnessing the spin of electrons, these devices ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota are searching for funding to extend a spintronics research program that concluded this past year. Center of Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel ...

Switching of spin structure in an antiferromagnetic device using electric current. The device temperature rises to the point where thermal as well as electromagnetic (spin torque) effects contribute ...