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The Birth of Spinplasmonics
Roland Piquepaille writes "You might have heard of spintronics, a technology that uses the magnetic quantum properties of the spin of electrons, or plasmonics, another one which 'involves the transfer of light electromagnetic energy into a tiny volume, thus creating intense electric fields.' Now, researchers at the University of Alberta (U of A) have merged these two nascent research fields to create a new nanotechnology field called spinplasmonics. According to the researchers, this new technology, which was already used to control the quantum state of an electron's spin to switch a beam of terahertz light, could one day be the basis for 'computers with extraordinary capacities.'"
'computers with extraordinary capacities'
It'll run Vista.
given lots of spin!
Computers today already have extraordinary capacities, at least compared to those of twenty years ago, which already had extraordinary capacities compared to those of forty years ago, and so on back to the first computer.
Let's have some numbers here, please. How much is that in Volkswagens or Libraries of Congress?
I'm waiting for the spindizzy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindizzy
Please tag the article "boycottroland." How do you get a user banned from Slashdot?
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"could one day be the basis for 'computers with extraordinary capacities.'"
The important word here, of course, being "could".
But i dont have a problem with roland. Everybody if fine to submit as much as he wants.
./ editors dont give a fuck and continue so put is submission on the frontpage.
What i DO have a problem with is the fact that
Yeah, we KNOW they are all idiots, corrupt and incompetend, by why not even try to hide it a bit?
Btw, is cowboyneal back from brokeback mountain yet?
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
- flux
), AND the light could equal extraordinary- capacity.
Then wouldn't that make this a "Flux Capacitor?"This press release has a few misleading pieces that should be corrected for the public record:
"The spintronics field is barely a dozen years-old...The field of plasmonics, which is even younger than spintronics..."
This is patently untrue. Work on plasmon and surface plasmon physics has been going on for more than 50 years. It is certainly true that the name 'Plasmonics' is rather recent, and fabrication capabilities have advanced dramatically to better exploit these effects, but the field of study is fairly well established.
"One of the main challenges for plasmonics researchers is finding a way to propagate light over a long distance through solid materials."
Spintronics will not mitigate this problem. There are many plasmonic structures which have relatively long propagation lengths, but when one confines the field to lateral dimensions less than 1/100th of the wavelength, the propagation length is going to be very short, regardless of the electron spin.
" the transfer of light electromagnetic energy into a tiny volume, thus creating intense electric fields."
Would anyone care to translate into English, and for bonus points give us an idea of why we should care?
I mean, I didn't even know that electromagnetic radiation came in light and heavy varieties.
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... and lost.
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
I'm thinking of inventing Quantum Histrionics. That's when everyone goes ga-ga over my latest quantum announcement, so that I can issue an IPO and walk away a millionaire -- over and over again.
lots of interest here!
either no-one cares, or no-one actually understands a word of the summary...
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. As the computer singularity approaches the human stupidity that grows out of it accelerates. The resulting situation nullifies the singularity.
I suppose if we actually replicate the processes of the human brain in a chip or such we may begin to have artificial intelligence. At this time however; nothing we have even resembles this. The process we use to extract information from sensor data at this time has no capacity to develop information without being preloaded with it. The process grows in demand on the process geometrically as new items are added to the information list. (HINT HINT!!!!!) No danger exists as long as this reality continues of competition by computers to human "intelligence."
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This of course will later evolve into the field known as 'Spasmodics'
I for one welcome our new spinplasmonic overlords.
(Sorry if someone had said that but it didn't show on search.)