Electric control of aligned spins improves computer memory
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 15:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB, Germany) and the French research facility CNRS, south of Paris, are using electric fields to manipulate the property of electrons known as "spin" to store data permanently. This principle could not only improve random access memory in computers, it could also revolutionize the next generation of electronic devices.