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Spintronics in Few Words - TECHOMAT
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Spintronics in few words
BY BABAK MOZOONI on JULY 19, 2015 • (0)
I am very sure that many of you know what does “electronics” mean or at least you heard this
word time to time. But how about “spintronics”? Does it sound familiar? if the answer is “No” then
you may want to continue reading this post. As you may know electronics is simply science of
studying moving electrons for transferring energy and data. Now if we replace “electrons” by
“spins” in this definition, we can simply explain the spintronics as the idea of transferring
energy/data by spins. The main advantage of using spins instead of electrons is that current
electric devices can be replaced by systems which are much faster, smaller and less energy
consuming. In physics, spin is the intrinsic angular momentum of an electron which has a
quantum number of 1/2 but for sake of simplicity lets define the spin as the rotating of an electron
around its own axis. Now consider a set of electrons locating close to each other in a line, if an
external torque (e.g. an external magnetic field) is applied to the first electron the electron will be
excited and the spin starts to precess (rotate) around itself. In other words the spin of the electron
will be slightly tilted. Such a movement in turn, is coupled to the spin of the next electron and tilts
its spin. This effect can be used to transfer energy or data from point A to B. As today electronic
devices are very close to their boundary of maximum efficiency and minimum size, spintonics can
be considered as a revolutionary progress in this area.
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