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Silicon twists

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For decades, silicon has been the dominant material for conventional, charge-based electronics. A new twist makes silicon ripe to enter the domain of spintronics, where the new currency is electron spin.

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Figure 1: Spin-valve effect.
Figure 2: Spin precession.

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  1. Igor Žutić is in the Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA. zigor@buffalo.edu,

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  2. Jaroslav Fabian is at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany. jaroslav.fabian@physik.uni-regensburg.de,

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