Do you know anything about spintronics? If no then let me tell you that it is related with the use of spin of an electron for storage, processing and communication of information. So probably one day it might give us even smaller and faster computers. It is being said that spintronics may act as a revolutionary technology for the world of computing.
As per Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, VCU School of Engineering:
In order to store and process information, the spin of an electron must be relatively robust. The most important property that determines the robustness of spin is the so-called ’spin relaxation time’ which is the time it takes for the spin to ‘relax’. When spin relaxes, the information encoded in it is lost. Therefore, we want the spin relaxation time to be as long as possible.
The university has become the first to study spin relaxation time in organic nanostructures. It seems that spintronics would go a long way in revolutionalizing the world of computing and develop better computers for the future.
Via itnews
