Upper Story's second board game uses a gorgeous array of mechanical gadgets to give kids a physical, visual, fun way to understand electronics – and to give parents the feeling their young ...

The Spintronics system in action—a mechanical “circuit” powered by a wind-up “battery.” The system is unlike traditional electronic educational toys, such as Snap Circuits (still one of ...

Spintronics could revolutionize how we store data. By Elizabeth Rayne Published: Jun 09, ... which is why games like Etch-a-Sketch and Operation have fascinated generations of kids.

The processor, integrated graphics, and other embedded components that make up some of the most popular low-power, ultra-light PCs require so little power that their power supplies and batteries ...

In spintronics, too, molecules open up the unexpected possibility of controlling the magnetism of materials and, thus, the spin of the flowing electrons.

Electric fields control spintronics devices. The work opens up a new device concept that the team calls layer-spintronics in which spin control is achieved via layer selection using an electric field.

In the spintronics version of STT, we could switch the magnetization of a nanomagnet by transferring spin angular momentum from the spin-polarized current. Building an STT device that uses ...

Theoretical work has highlighted the potential of using devices in which spin-polarized carries are injected in single molecular magnets, and a few experiments have shown promising results. The ...

Using powerful magnets, researchers have found a way to store digital data -- zeroes and ones -- in the spin of an atom's nucleus. In theory, this spin memory should be faster and require less ...

Physicists have discovered the equivalent of a new 'Ohm's Law' for spintronics - the emerging science of manipulating the spin of electrons for useful purposes. Unlike the Ohm's Law for ...