QUANTUM SPINS of electrons are all-important as they race through a spintronic microchip.
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As rapid progress in the miniaturization of semiconductor electronic devices leads toward chip features smaller than 100 nanometers in size, device engineers and physicists are inevitably faced with the looming presence of quantum mechanics--that counterintuitive and sometimes mysterious realm of physics wherein wavelike properties dominate the behavior of electrons. Pragmatists in the semiconductor device world are busy conjuring up ingenious ways to avoid the quantum world by redesigning the semiconductor chip within the context of "classical" electronics [see "A Vertical Leap for Microchips," by Thomas H. Lee; Scientific American, January]. Yet some of us believe that we are being offered an unprecedented opportunity to define a radically new class of device that would exploit the idiosyncrasies of the quantum world to provide unique advantages over existing information technologies.
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Add CommentI am looking a revolution in the present electronic based technonlgy by spintronic. Then our devices will become more verstile, higher speed funtion , smart and very reaiable. So in future 10 years all Si and Ge based technology will be replaced by spintronics. Dr. Javed Iqbal Saggu
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDear Dr. Javed Iqbal Saggu
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWill you be so generous as to elucidate a bit on the relationship or differences between spintronics, quantum dots, and the potential of graphene as far as quantum effects are applied to technology currently accomplished with conventional semiconductors?
Thank you.
Latest Spintronics Research interpretted with Mass to Energy Conversion
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHi,
I am tentatively promoting my new interpreation of Spintronics.
Briefly, I am suggesting that if charge and spin is associated with mass to energy conversion (see my uploaded file s at the group below) then I can reproduce the results of the experiment for the Spin Hall effect.
The file for the Spin Hall effect is called:
Alex Work - Spintronics in Complex QM (24 JAN 2009)
I am not in a position to say how it fits in elsewhere in Spintronics.
I am just getting started in commenting upon the latest research.
IWorking in Spintronics? Please let me know what you think at my group below so I am sure to read your reply.
Thanks,
Alex
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This article appeared 10 years ago to the month. Are any commercial spintronic devices on the market yet? I'm particularly interested in measuring very weak magnetic fields with small devices.
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