{"id":25150,"date":"2016-04-28T19:33:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T02:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-light-stuff-a-brand-new-way-to-produce-electron-spin-currents"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:09:49","slug":"the-light-stuff-a-brand-new-way-to-produce-electron-spin-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-light-stuff-a-brand-new-way-to-produce-electron-spin-currents","title":{"rendered":"The light stuff: A brand-new way to produce electron spin currents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-light-stuff-a-brand-new-way-to-produce-electron-spin-currents.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With apologies to Isaac Asimov, the most exciting phase to hear in science isn\u2019t \u201cEureka,\u201d but \u201cThat\u2019s funny\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cthat\u2019s funny\u201d moment in a Colorado State University physics lab has led to a fundamental discovery that could play a key role in next-generation microelectronics.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing in <em>Nature Physics<\/em> April 25, the scientists, led by Professor of Physics Mingzhong Wu in CSU\u2019s College of Natural Sciences, are the first to demonstrate using non-polarized light to produce in a metal what\u2019s called a spin voltage \u2014 a unit of power produced from the quantum spinning of an individual electron. Controlling electron spins for use in memory and logic applications is a relatively new field called spin electronics, or spintronics, and the subject of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/04\/160425142352.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/04\/160425142352.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Isaac Asimov, the most exciting phase to hear in science isn\u2019t \u201cEureka,\u201d but \u201cThat\u2019s funny\u2026\u201d A \u201cthat\u2019s funny\u201d moment in a Colorado State University physics lab has led to a fundamental discovery that could play a key role in next-generation microelectronics. Publishing in Nature Physics April 25, the scientists, led by Professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50672,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150\/revisions\/50672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}