New $7.5M project to leverage atomic-scale defects for next-generation information processing
A new $7.5 million project, led by the University of Michigan, will embrace lines of shifted atoms, or dislocations, in electronic materials (which have long been considered detrimental due to their tendency to impede the flow of electricity), and use them to possibly enable faster and more efficient information processing.
Funded by the Department of Defense, the project aims to understand how dislocations could be used as nano-pipelines to channel electrons while manipulating their spins. The project also involves researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.