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DNA spintronics sees the light

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A thin layer of double-stranded DNA on a gold surface can act as a spin filter.

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Figure 1: Spin selectivity with DNA.

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  1. Massimiliano Di Ventra is in the Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA,

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  2. Yuriy V. Pershin is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the USC Nanocenter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.,

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