First spintronics memory successfully trialled

The traditional semiconductors that currently rule nearly every area of our digital lives could be replaced in the future by spintronics devices, which read and write data via the "spin" of electrons, rather than switching transistors.  Spintronics has been a common buzzword in predictions for the future of computing, and the process was recently photographed by physicists at the University of Hamburg. However, researchers at Ohio State University have now taken...