Spintronics: Silicon twists

Igor Žutić; Jaroslav Fabian

doi:10.1038/447269a

Spintronics: Silicon twists

Igor Žutić
, Jaroslav Fabian

Physics

University of Regensburg

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	269-270
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature
Volume	447
Issue number	7142
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/447269a
State	Published - May 17 2007

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