Physicists capture first images of atomic spin
Monday, April 26, 2010 - 15:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Though scientists argue that the emerging technology of spintronics may trump conventional electronics for building the next generation of faster, smaller, more efficient computers and high-tech devices, no one has actually seen the spin -- a quantum mechanical property of electrons--in individual atoms until now. In a new study, physicists present the first images of spin in action.