News tagged with ferromagnetic semiconductors

Physicists finds new path toward increasing semiconductor functionality

(PhysOrg.com) -- The past decade has seen the emergence of the field of spintronics, aimed at increasing the efficiency of information processing and computer memories. The idea behind spintronics is to harness the magnetic ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mn-doped ZnS is unsuitable to act as a dilute magnetic semiconductor

Dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) have recently been a major focus of magnetic semiconductor research. A laboratory from the University of Science and Technology of China explored the feasibility of doping ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers create all-electric spintronics

A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 3

Spintronic -- the new electronic?

European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2




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Hall effect magnetic field sensors for high temperatures and harmful radiation environments

Toyohashi Tech researchers have fabricated Hall effect magnetic field sensors operable at least 400 C and in extreme radiation conditions using gallium nitride-based heterostructures a with two-dimensional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers resolve controversy over gallium manganese arsenide that could boost spintronic performance

A long-standing controversy regarding the semiconductor gallium manganese arsenide, one of the most promising materials for spintronic technology, looks to have been resolved. Researchers with the Lawrence ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals switching mechanism in promising computer memory device

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes knowing that a new technology works is not enough. You also must know why it works to get marketplace acceptance. New information from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Emerging new properties at oxide interfaces

In many ionic materials, including the oxides, surfaces created along specific directions can become electrically charged. By the same token, such electronic charging, or 'polarisation', can also occur at the interface of ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Quantum simulator prototype replicates structure of graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Columbia Engineering, the Italian National Research Council, Princeton University, University of Missouri, and University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) has developed an artificial semiconductor ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chameleon magnets: ability to switch magnets 'on' or 'off' could revolutionize computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- What causes a magnet to be a magnet, and how can we control a magnet's behavior? These are the questions that University at Buffalo researcher Igor Zutic, a theoretical physicist, has been ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

A new dimension in materials research

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the future, physicists will be able to follow a new lead in their search for new materials for electronic components, for example. An international team of researchers headed by scientists ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists achieve high temperature milestone in silicon spintronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Materials Science and Technology division of the Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated electrical injection, detection and precession of spin accumulation ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Mediating magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium oxide doped with cobalt produces magnetic properties at room temperature via a newly discovered mechanism.

Physics / General Physics

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Titanium oxide doped with cobalt produces magnetic properties at room temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spintronics — also known as magnetoelectronics — may replace electronics as the medium of choice for computer memory. The discovery of a mechanism that produces permanent magnets ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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