Spintronics: The Technology Revolution You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Electronics use an electron's charge to encode information. Now, scientists are using spin instead-- and it could revolutionize everything. Quantum Teleportation Is Real, Here's How It Works...
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In the last 50 years we have revolutionized the world with electronics by exploiting a fundamental property of electrons -- their charge. Now researchers are working towards the next leap forward in technology using another fundamental property of electrons -- their spin. The field is called spintronics, -- a portmanteau of spin transport electronics. The idea is to use an electron’s spin in much the same way we use its charge. Electronics today encode information by using electrical currents to represent 1s and 0s. If the current is on and electrons are flowing, it represents a 1. If the current is off, it’s a 0. Electrons themselves can have spins in two orientations, up or down. So instead of on or off representing ones and zeroes, up or down spins ...
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In the last 50 years we have revolutionized the world with electronics by exploiting a fundamental property of electrons -- their charge. Now researchers are working towards the next leap forward in technology using another fundamental property of electrons -- their spin. The field is called spintronics, -- a portmanteau of spin transport electronics. The idea is to use an electron’s spin in much the same way we use its charge. Electronics today encode information by using electrical currents to represent 1s and 0s. If the current is on and electrons are flowing, it represents a 1. If the current is off, it’s a 0. Electrons themselves can have spins in two orientations, up or down. So instead of on or off representing ones and zeroes, up or down spins ...
