From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 14:43:01 MDT
Source: University At Buffalo (http://www.buffalo.edu/)
Date: Posted 5/17/2002
Semiconducting Material May Have The Right Stuff To Develop Spintronic
Devices
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A team of researchers led by University at Buffalo
physicists reported today that they have created semiconducting materials
that exhibit the key properties that are essential to the development of
semiconductor spintronic devices. Scheduled for publication in the May 27
issue of Applied Physics Letters, the research demonstrates that development
of new semiconductor spintronic devices, including a prototype magnetic
semiconductor, is not very far off, according to the UB physicists. "After
years of struggling to create materials that would make spintronic devices
possible, we now have them in hand," said Hong Luo, Ph.D., UB physics
professor and a co-author on the paper. "Based on what we know now about this
material, we believe we have satisfied the most important requirements for
spintronic devices that function at room temperature, such as a spin
transistor," he said. The UB team now is shifting its focus to begin work on
such devices.
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