Spintronics

Spintronics is the use of a fundamental property of particles known as spin for information processing. In many ways, spintronics is analogous to electronics, which instead uses the electric charge of an electron. Transporting information about an electron's charge and spin potentially offers devices with a greater diversity of functionality. Spintronic devices promise to solve major problems with electronic computers today, as computers use huge amounts of electricity and generate heat that requires even more energy for cooling. In contrast, spintronic devices generate little heat and consume relatively little electricity. Spintronic computers would not need power to keep data in memory.

• dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS)
•  Heusler alloys
• quantum computing
• neuromorphic computing.