Graphene looking promising for future spintronic devices

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng. COO, CVMR Corporation Leave a comment

The researchers fabricated the spintronics devices at the Nano fabrication laboratory at Chalmers University of Technology. From left: Saroj Prasad Dash, Venkata Kamalakar Mutta and André Dankert. Credit: Oscar MattssonResearchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered that large area graphene is able to preserve electron spin over an extended period, and communicate it over greater distances than had previously been known. This has opened the door for the development of spintronics, with an aim to manufacturing faster and more energy-efficient memory and processors in computers. The findings will be published in the journal Nature Communications