Bucky balls for next-generation spintronics devices

Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 00:30 in Physics & Chemistry

The beauty of an electron’s spin is that it responds very rapidly to small magnetic fields. Such external magnetic fields can be used to reverse the direction of spin. In this way, information can be carried by a flow of electrons.

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