{"id":223781,"date":"2025-10-22T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/dual-torque-from-electron-spins-drives-magnetic-domain-wall-displacement"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:24:15","slug":"dual-torque-from-electron-spins-drives-magnetic-domain-wall-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/dual-torque-from-electron-spins-drives-magnetic-domain-wall-displacement","title":{"rendered":"Dual torque from electron spins drives magnetic domain wall displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dual-torque-from-electron-spins-drives-magnetic-domain-wall-displacement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more energy-efficient electronic devices. Their discovery could pave the way for the next generation of memory chips that combine high speed with low power consumption.<\/p>\n<p>In spintronic memory, information is stored using tiny magnetic regions called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+domains\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic domains<\/a>. A magnetic domain with its magnetic moments pointing upward represents a \u201c1,\u201d while one pointing downward represents a \u201c0.\u201d Data can be read or written by shifting these domains with an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+current\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric current<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The boundaries between them, known as domain walls, play a crucial role, as moving domains means moving these walls. Achieving fast and efficient domain wall motion is essential for developing advanced memories such as magnetic shift registers and three-terminal magnetic random access memories (MRAM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more energy-efficient electronic devices. Their discovery could pave the way for the next generation of memory chips that combine high speed with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223781","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\/223781","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}