Spintronics May Become a Reality to Beat Electronics in the Race for Faster Computers

With the new developments in the research of spintronics, we can conclude that spintronics can become a reality in the near future. The spintronics deals with the spin of electrons in the semiconductor much like the electronics deals with the charge of electrons in the semiconductor. The researchers discovered a way to detect and control the spin of electrons in silicon, which is widely used in the semiconductor industry.

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In the recent years, the semiconductor industry is facing a lot of problems because of the challenges in the meeting the speed and size targets for the demands of consumer electronics industry. The high speeds of processors and small sizes are now becoming big challenges to meet.

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Meanwhile the research for spintronics was going on. The control of spin in electrons was not known. But the methods to use it instead of electron charge, for all electronic applications is explored and named as spintronics. With the new discovery the spintronics could become a reality as the only problem was to control the spin of electrons. However there are still certain problems which need to be solved before taking a step further into spintronics. Researchers say that the risk is worth taking, keeping the demand and current challenges in electronics, in mind.

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An important application of spintronics is quantum computer which is a very powerful computer compared to the current ones.

The first public demo of a Quantum Computer in action

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