The Spintronics and Nanoelectronics group from the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic has contributed to the discovery of new mechanisms for storing information.
A discovery of a relativistic effect, to which contributed also researchers from the Institute of Physics of the CAS, was published in Nature Photonics and Nature Communications.
In the near future, it is expected that the development of spintronic provides high density magnetic random access memories and logic-in-memory architectures, opening a route to the new generation of high-speed, low-power instant on-and-off computers.
The discovery, allowing to manipulate spins in a magnet by short laser pulses, was reported by scientists from the Joint Laboratory of Opto-Spintronics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences.
The discovery is a result of a longstanding fruitful collaboration of scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and laboratories in Cambridge and Nottingham in the UK.
The team has engaged recently discovered quantum-relativistic phenomena for both spin manipulation and detection to realize the spin transistor and to demonstrate spin-logic operation.
