Researchers flip a magnetic memory cell with a light pulse at record speed
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 15:31
in Physics & Chemistry
University of Minnesota electrical and computer engineering researchers have created a magnetic tunnel junction that can be switched by a pulse of light lasting one trillionth of a second—a new record. The magnetic tunnel junction is critical to information technology advances with the termination of Moore's law, a principle that has ruled the microelectronics industry for five decades.