One way to keep laptops from getting as hot as the sun's surface

Texas A&M researcher and cohorts from other schools resort to spintronics

Researchers are in a race against increasingly dense and powerful laptops that will melt themselves if they get much hotter. One possible solution involves putting spin on electrons to record and process information, says Jairo Sinova, a Texas A&M University physics professor, who has joined forces with researchers from Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, the Institute of Physics ASCR, University of Cambridge and University of Nottingham. The team has created "an all semi-conductor, spin-based device for possible information processing," Sinova says, and he discusses the effort a bit more in this video:

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