Researchers from Purdue University have made huge breakthroughs in the area of spintronics that has the potential to change electronic devices and computing.
Regular electronics use an electron's charge to encode information; spintronic devices use the spin of an electron to achieve the same thing.
Using this intrinsic property of an electron has the potential to make high-powered devices that use much less power. However, the area of research is very new, and there are some fundamental base knowledge challenges that need to be resolved.
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