Spintronics: Silicon twists
Abstract
For decades, silicon has been the dominant material for conventional, charge-based electronics. A new twist makes silicon ripe to enter the domain of spintronics, where the new currency is electron spin.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- May 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1038/447269a
- Bibcode:
- 2007Natur.447..268Z