Domain walls that conduct electricity
Sunday, February 1, 2009 - 15:28
in Physics & Chemistry
The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometres (billionths of a metre) instead of the many tens of nanometres that characterise today's most advanced elements - if a way can be found to control domain walls, the ultrathin transition zones that separate regions of a material having different magnetic, electric, or other properties...