With apologies to Isaac Asimov, the most exciting phase to hear in science isn't "Eureka," but "That's funny..." A "that's funny" moment in a Colorado State University physics lab has led to a fundamental discovery that could ...
General Physics
Apr 25, 2016
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By showing that a phenomenon dubbed the "inverse spin Hall effect" works in several organic semiconductors - including carbon-60 buckyballs - University of Utah physicists changed magnetic "spin current" into electric current. ...
General Physics
Apr 18, 2016
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A team of researchers, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, have demonstrated for the first time the transmission of electrical signals through insulators in a sandwich-like structure, a development ...
General Physics
Mar 2, 2016
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Researchers of the Nanodevices group, in collaboration with groups from the CFM and DIPC, both institutions also located in Donostia-San Sebastián, have discovered a new magnetoresistance effect occurring in materials with ...
General Physics
Jan 29, 2016
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"Spintronics" is a new class of electronics where charge and spin are utilized. A pure spin current, flow of spin without charge current, is one of the important physical quantities in its field, which could play an essential ...
General Physics
Dec 16, 2015
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time reported the electrical detection of spin current on topological insulator surfaces at room temperature by employing a ferromagnetic detector. The findings ...
Nanophysics
Dec 7, 2015
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An experiment at Tohoku University (Japan) in 2008 laid the foundations for research on 'spin caloritronics' – a field that aims to develop more effective and energy-saving data processing in information technology. Since ...
General Physics
Sep 23, 2015
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have for the first time seen a spin current – an inherent magnetic property common to all electrons – as it travels across materials. The ...
General Physics
Sep 4, 2015
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It doesn't happen often that a young scientist makes a significant and unexpected discovery, but postdoctoral researcher Stephen Wu of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory just did exactly that. What ...
General Physics
Jul 24, 2015
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Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have reported the first observation of spin precession of spin currents flowing in a silicon nanowire (NW) transport channel, and determined spin lifetimes and corresponding ...
Nanophysics
Jun 24, 2015
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