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A new spin on spintronics

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By harnessing the way charge carriers move in a magnetic field, computing blocks based on semiconductor junctions have been made that are reconfigurable and can be interconnected to perform complex logic functions. See Letter p.72

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Figure 1: Bending avalanche carriers.

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