New discovery could pave the way for spin-based computing

Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 13:40 in Physics & Chemistry

Electricity and magnetism rule our digital world. Semiconductors process electrical information, while magnetic materials enable long-term data storage. A University of Pittsburgh research team has discovered a way to fuse these two distinct properties in a single material, paving the way for new ultrahigh density storage and computing architectures.

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