Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 10:14
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a major step forward in the technology of spintronics. At the same time they have discovered a new conservation law, an important advance in fundamental physics.