SPINTRONICS

THE FUTURE OF DIGIAL WORLD

What is spintronics ?

Spintronics (a neologism meaning "spin transport electronics"), also known as magneto electronics, is an

emerging technology that exploits the intrinsic spin of the

electron and its associated magnetic moment, in

addition to its fundamental electronic charge, in solid-state devices.

Principle
Spintronics is based on the spin of the electron exists in one of the two states, namely spin up and spin down, with spins either positive half or negative half. In other words, an electron can

rotate either in clockwise or anticlockwise

around its own axis with constant frequency.

Spin is the root cause of magnetism and is a kind of intrinsic angular momentum that a particle cannot gain or lose.

Finding the spin of an electron

The spin orientation of the electron was converted to an electrical charge, which was then measured using a device called a Field effect transistor, or FET. An FET can sense current changes in electrostatic charge.

All spintronic devices act according to the simple

scheme: (1) information is stored (written) into

spins as a particular spin orientation (up or

down), (2) the spins, being attached to mobile

electrons, carry the information along a wire, and (3) the information is read at a terminal.

Magnetic fields can change the direction of spins

by inducing "precession" which is an additional

rotation of the spin orientation about the

magnetic field, similar to the periodic movement

of the axis of a top after it is spun.

One future technology is quantum computing, where many schemes make use of electron spin states as bits of information analogous to the 0's

and 1's of binary computing. Unlike ordinary

bits, 'quantum bits' can be any combination of

both 0 and 1 simultaneously.

qubit
In quantum computing, a qubit or quantum
bit is a unit of quantum information - the

quantum analogue of the classical bitwith

additional dimensions associated to the quantum properties of a physical atom.

 The two states in which a qubit may be

measured are known as basis states (or)

basis vectors.
The two computational basis states are

conventionally

written

as

l0>

and

l1>and (pronounced "ket 0" and "ket 1").

Spintronics products
Hard drives up to 1.2 petabytes

Spintronics products

1. 2. 3.

iPod nano Cell phones Laptop hard drives

Applications
Quantum Computers
MRAM Magnetic Field Sensors

4GB Flash drive

4GB Compact Flash card 4GB flash drive which can even hold 8GB

data.

Conclusion
SPINTRONICS, which depend on the spin of the
electron, has a great potential of spinning this global village into a unexpected digital atomic world which has a capability of manipulating at atomic level and this can even made further smaller, With the

integration with new emerging technology called

NANOTECHNOLOGY.