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Major Breakthrough In Spintronics Research
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "Spintronics is the field of research into developing devices that rely on electron spin rather than electron charge to carry information. A major advance has been made by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where they have for the first time generated, modulated, and electrically detected a pure spin current in silicon. Progress in this field is expected to lead to devices which provide higher performance with lower power consumption and heat dissipation. Basic research efforts at NRL and elsewhere have shown that spin angular momentum, another fundamental property of the electron, can be used to store and process information in metal and semiconductor based devices. The article abstract is available from Applied Physics Letters."
Spintronics is the field of research into developing devices that rely on electron spin rather than electron charge to carry information.
Yes, I believe it's called a "Phonograph".
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
All the politicians in Washington are jumping for joy for the advancement of their Spin techniques.
This must really scare Bill O'Reilly.
Humanity will be unstoppable once we have invented these phase converters to modulate!
but I'm trying to figure out how this can be applied to our current electronic designs. If we use electron spin to store data, and presuming that we can determine which way it's spinning, then that gives us a total of six possibilities, right?
+pitch -pitch +yaw -yaw +roll -roll
Or, of course, this could be denoted as 0 and 1 instead of + and -. However, doesn't that throw out the current binary model? This'll effectively be base six, instead of base two, won't it?
I dunno - this isn't exactly my field, so I'm just trying to understand, is all.
http://xkcd.com/313/
whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down here. Entanglement? Do we *really* want to open a portal to Xen? We all know what happened the last time that happened. I doubt there are enough MIT graduates with that caliber anymore... .357, wasn't it?
I have bad karma. What do I care what you think?
Is there ANY discipline that some slashdotter doesn't have a Ph.D. in?
I'm having a hard time understanding what's silly about it. You have to call it SOMETHING. What do you suggest? Spinformation? Spin-o-matics? Magnetitronics? Electrospintronics?
At some point you just give it a name and move on.
Although I'd still like to give the person responsible for "blog" a kick in the nuts.
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I'm sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. This is Slashdot and we don't take kindly to people who actually know what they're talking about around here...
It looks like you're reading a quantum state. Do you wish to continue? Yes/No? No/Yes?
We must move forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling.