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Decorated with Electric Current, Nanoribbons Align with Expectations

(PhysOrg.com) -- A bizarre substance predicted to shrink electronics and give quantum physicists a new tabletop toy behaves pretty much as its designers expected.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Could the combination of general relativity and quantum mechanics lead to spintronics?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 20th century, two famous discoveries about spin were made. One of them, discovered by Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas, explains a relationship between the spin of elementary particles. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers successfully test new alternative to traditional semiconductors

Researchers at Ohio State University have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 0 weblog

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

Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics

(Phys.org) -- Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Physicists cross hurdle in quantum manipulation of matter

Finding ways to control matter at the level of single atoms and electrons fascinates many scientists and engineers because the ability to manipulate single charges and single magnetic moments (spins) may help ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers Develop Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Graphite mimics iron's magnetism

Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Unprecedented look at oxide interfaces reveals unexpected structures on atomic scale

Thin layers of oxide materials and their interfaces have been observed in atomic resolution during growth for the first time by researchers at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Department ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Research reveals vital insight into spintronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Progress in electronics has relied heavily on reducing the size of the transistor to create small, powerful computers. Now spintronics, hailed as the successor to the transistor, looks set ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 03, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Strain and spin may enable ultra-low-energy computing

By combining two frontier technologies, spintronics and straintronics, a team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University has devised perhaps the world's most miserly integrated circuit.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Physicists detect and control quantum states in diamond with light

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have succeeded in combining laser light with trapped electrons to detect and control the electrons' fragile quantum state without erasing it. This is an important step toward using quantum physics ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

The Spin Cycle: Nanoresearch could lead to next generation of transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, the transistors inside radios, televisions and other everyday items have transmitted data by controlling the movement of the electron’s charge. Scientists now have discovered ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Topological insulators take two steps forward

A team of researchers from the Stanford Institute of Materials and Energy Science, a joint institute of the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, and their international ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 10, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast