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Comment Re:Big mistake in the summary (Score 1) 50

by ccellist on Monday May 21, 2007 @01:39AM (#19205133) Attached to: Researchers Put 'Spin' in Silicon

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I guess I misunderstand the way the 1's and 0's look like at the atomic level. So you're saying that below a certain threshold of electrons flowing the IC yields a zero ("false"), and above that a 1 ("true")?

Submission + - Researchers Put 'Spin' in Silicon, Advance New Age

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on Saturday May 19, 2007 @02:49AM

ccellist writes: "http://www.physorg.com/news98731293.html

Physorg.com is reporting on the University of Delaware and Cambridge NanoTech's experiments regarding 'spintronics', or the ability to use information about electron spin in atoms of silicon to encode information, much like we use information about an electron's charge state in computers today.

Whereas semiconductors nowadays operate on binary bits (by manipulating the charge of electrons in a silicon wafer representing 'on' or 'off', 'true' or 'false'), 'spintronics' research hopes to usher in a new age of computer speed and performance by measuring and even controlling the angular momentum displayed by all electrons, and using this information to encode data.

The website reports that researchers for the first time successfully conducted the spin of electrons in a custom-made silicon chip, a process known as 'spin transport'."

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