The discovery of a new material combination that could lead to a more efficient approach to computer memory and logic will be described in the journal Nature on July 24, 2014.
The research, led by Penn State University and Cornell University physicists, studies “spin torque” in devices that combine a standard magnetic material with a novel material known as a “topological insulator.” The team’s results show that such a scheme can be 10 times more efficient for controlling magnetic memory or logic than any other combination of materials measured to date.
“This is a really exciting development for the field because it is the first promising indication that we actually may be able to build a practical technology with these topological insulator materials, which many condensed-matter physicists have been studying with spintronics applications as the motivation,” said co-principal-investigator Nitin Samarth, a professor of physics and the George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Department Head of Physics at Penn State. “Our experiment takes advantage of the very special surface of bismuth selenide — a material that is a topological insulator — which inherently supports the flow of electrons with an oriented spin,” he said. “Our collaborators at Cornell found that, at normal room temperatures, we can use these spin-oriented electrons to very efficiently control the direction of the magnetic polarity in the adjacent material.”
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