Utah researchers showed that information can be carried by spins in organic polymers.
University of Utah physicists successfully controlled an electrical current using the "spin" within electrons – a step toward building an organic "spin transistor": a plastic semiconductor switch for future ultrafast computers and electronics.
In the new study, the
researchers showed that information can be carried by spins in an
organic polymer, and that a spin transistor is possible because "we can
convert the spin information into a current, and manipulate it and
change it," says Lupton. "We are manipulating this information and
reading it out again. We are writing it and reading it."
Boehme says spin transistors and other spin electronics could make
possible much smaller computer chips, and computers that are orders of
magnitude faster than today's.
Similar entries
- Organic nanowires found to have long spin relaxation time
- Industrial dye might hold the key to advancing spintronics
- Oregon Physicists Finds Possible Electron Switch
- UC Riverside's lab proposes a simple technique for controlling electron spin and current flow
- US Air Force is funding a new "single photon technique" Spintronics research
