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Wednesday, October 16, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55386,00.html Better PCs With Plastic Magnets Louise Knapp An ultrafast, low-cost computer that boots up instantly and safeguards data in case of a crash may sound like a mythical fairy tale beast, but the idea behind it comes from less fanciful stuff: the quantum theory of spintronics combined with plastic magnets. The trick to spintronics, however, is to exploit the electrons' spin instead of, or in conjunction with, their charge. "It's another level of function that opens up -- a new way of doing circuitry," said Arthur Epstein, professor of physics and chemistry at Ohio State University and a member of the team working on the supercomputer's design....
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