While more distant, the pay-off from spintronics could be even more revolutionary than anything nanotech has stirred up so far.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Spintronics is an emerging field of chip design in which circuits open and close according to the spin of electrons rather than their location.

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Unfortunately, it appears that like the 3D memory concepts from Toshiba, Samsung and Hitachi along with things like spintronics may set the future standards.

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These discoveries have given birth to a field of endeavour that is known as spintronics, because the magnetic properties of a material depend on a quantum-mechanical property of electrons called spin.

ECONOMIST: Spintronics