A New Spin on Electronics
Monday, May 29, 2017 - 10:32
in Physics & Chemistry
A University of Utah-led team has discovered that a class of "miracle materials" called organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites could be a game changer for future spintronic devices. Spintronics uses the direction of the electron spin -- either up or down -- to carry information in ones and zeros. A spintronic device can process exponentially more data than traditional electronics. The researchers discovered that the material possess two contradictory properties necessary to make spintronic devices work.