{"id":115269,"date":"2020-10-29T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/researchers-break-magnetic-memory-speed-record"},"modified":"2020-10-29T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T22:22:22","slug":"researchers-break-magnetic-memory-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/researchers-break-magnetic-memory-speed-record","title":{"rendered":"Researchers break magnetic memory speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-break-magnetic-memory-speed-record.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spintronic devices are attractive alternatives to conventional computer chips, providing digital information storage that is highly energy efficient and also relatively easy to manufacture on a large scale. However, these devices, which rely on magnetic memory, are still hindered by their relatively slow speeds, compared to conventional electronic chips.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in the journal <i>Nature Electronics<\/i>, an international team of researchers has reported a new technique for magnetization switching\u2014the process used to \u201cwrite\u201d information into magnetic memory\u2014that is nearly 100 times faster than state-of-the-art spintronic devices. The advance could lead to the development of ultrafast magnetic memory for computer chips that would retain data even when there is no power.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the researchers report using extremely short, 6-picosecond <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+pulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical pulses<\/a> to switch the magnetization of a thin film in a magnetic device with great energy efficiency. A picosecond is one-trillionth of a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spintronic devices are attractive alternatives to conventional computer chips, providing digital information storage that is highly energy efficient and also relatively easy to manufacture on a large scale. However, these devices, which rely on magnetic memory, are still hindered by their relatively slow speeds, compared to conventional electronic chips. In a paper published in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}