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Researchers from Ohio University managed to measure the transmission of spin information in only a few electrons, using a diamond wire only 4 micrometers long and 200 nanometers wide, chilled to 4 degrees above absolute zero. They discovered that spin transport is efficient in diamond wire.
To measure the spin information, the researchers cooled the wire made of a tiny artificial diamond (doped with nitrogen) stretched out into a thin wire shape, and then turned on a magnetic field and measured the spins of electrons in the wire with a tiny cantilever.
Researchers from the University of Utah developed Spintronics devices that can convert heat into electricity. Those thermoelectric devices work at room temperature and don't require a continuous external magnetic field.
Those devices (that can convert even minute heat to electricity) function on a concept known as spin-caloritronics, in which thermal and electrical transport occurs in different parts of the device.
Researchers from Japan's RIKEN center discovered that skyrmions can be manipulated thermally using an electron beam. The researcher say that such a method could be used to develop low-energy memory and logic devices - in which the info is coded by the skyrmions.
In ferromagnetic materials, each atom acts like a tiny bar magnet. Usually all those "magnets" point in the same direction, but sometimes they can create skyrmions - "whirls" in the magnetic orientation of those atoms (see image above).
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