The physicsworld.com camera crew was at the Royal Society in London for a discussion meeting on spintronics. We asked a wide range of attendees what excites them most about electron spin.
In the video, spintronics guru and meeting organizer Stuart Parkin of IBM Almaden describes how a racetrack memory works; Ian Appelbaum of the University of Maryland explains why humble silicon could be the material of choice for future spintronics circuits; and Theo Rasing of Radboud University in the Netherlands talks about his lab’s recent successes in flipping spins very quickly using laser light.
They’re just a few of the experts in the video – and if you are considering a career in spintronics, you can hear several PhD students explain why they find the field so exciting.
