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Overheard – Replacing the transistor



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
spintronics
electron_spin.jpg Controlling electrons — and the “magnetic moment” their spin produces — offers the prospect of breaking away from the transistor, a 1948 invention that is still the main element of computers.

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