{"id":234640,"date":"2026-04-05T06:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/opening-the-door-to-more-efficient-orbitronic-devices"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:03:58","slug":"opening-the-door-to-more-efficient-orbitronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/opening-the-door-to-more-efficient-orbitronic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Opening the door to more efficient orbitronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opening-the-door-to-more-efficient-orbitronic-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electrons have three intrinsic properties: spin, charge and orbital angular momentum. Researchers have long studied how to use spin to more efficiently create an electrical current. But the field of orbitronics\u2014which is based upon using an electron\u2019s orbital angular momentum, rather than its spin, to create a current flow\u2014remains relatively new.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditionally, it has been technically challenging to generate orbital current,\u201d says Dali Sun, a professor of physics and member of the Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab (ORaCEL) at NC State University.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent study, however, Sun and an international team of researchers demonstrated a groundbreaking new method to generate orbital current.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrons have three intrinsic properties: spin, charge and orbital angular momentum. Researchers have long studied how to use spin to more efficiently create an electrical current. But the field of orbitronics\u2014which is based upon using an electron\u2019s orbital angular momentum, rather than its spin, to create a current flow\u2014remains relatively new. \u201cTraditionally, it has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234640","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}