{"id":75638,"date":"2018-01-29T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/diamonds-show-promise-for-spintronic-devices"},"modified":"2018-01-29T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T21:03:00","slug":"diamonds-show-promise-for-spintronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/diamonds-show-promise-for-spintronic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds show promise for spintronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diamonds-show-promise-for-spintronic-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conventional electronics rely on controlling electric charge. Recently, researchers have been exploring the potential for a new technology, called spintronics, that relies on detecting and controlling a particle\u2019s spin. This technology could lead to new types of more efficient and powerful devices.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <i>Applied Physics Letters<\/i>, researchers measured how strongly a charge carrier\u2019s spin interacts with a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a> in diamond. This crucial property shows diamond as a promising material for spintronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond is attractive because it would be easier to process and fabricate into spintronic devices than typical semiconductor materials, said Golrokh Akhgar, a physicist at La Trobe University in Australia. Conventional quantum devices are based on multiple thin layers of semiconductors, which require an elaborate fabrication process in an ultrahigh vacuum.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-01-diamonds-spintronic-devices.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;01-diamonds-spintronic-devices.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional electronics rely on controlling electric charge. Recently, researchers have been exploring the potential for a new technology, called spintronics, that relies on detecting and controlling a particle\u2019s spin. This technology could lead to new types of more efficient and powerful devices. In a paper published in Applied Physics Letters, researchers measured how strongly a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75638","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}