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Nature Materials 6, 798 - 799 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat2049

Spintronics: A growing science

John F. Gregg1

  1. John F. Gregg is at the Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK.
    e-mail: j.gregg1@physics.ox.ac.uk


The integration of spintronic elements with present-day electronic devices requires that a material with high spin polarization is matched with widely used semiconductors. The stabilization of europium oxide on silicon and gallium nitride is a clear leap forward in this direction.

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