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Transport properties

The spintronics challenge

03 Jan 2008

Microelectronic devices that exploit the spin of the electron as well as its charge promise to revolutionize the electronics industry. The challenge, as Tony Bland, Kiyoung Lee and Stephan Steinmüller describe, is to find a way of integrating semiconductors into such "spintronic" circuits

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