Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could enable development of...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Sun, 06/22/2008 - 22:00

(University of California - Riverside) Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how information in computers can be transported or stored.

Dependent on the "spin" of electrons, a property electrons possess that makes them behave like tiny magnets, the discovery could help in the development of spin-based semiconductor technology such as ultrahigh-speed computers.

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