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First Silicon Spin-Transport Devices
First Silicon Spin-Transport Devices
The world's first silicon spin-transport devices fabricated and measured in Ian Appelbaum's lab at the University of Delaware (UD). More than 25 individual silicon spin-transport devices are represented, one within each tiny wire grid, on this ceramic chip holder.
To learn more about this research, see the UD news release UD Researchers Put 'Spin' in Silicon, Advance New Age of Electronics. (Date of Image: May 2007)
Credit: Jon Cox, University of Delaware
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