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Bolometers with high responsivity and low electrical noise can be fabricated exploiting the conductance gap induced in graphene quantum dots by quantum confinement and their interaction with the substrate.
The electron spins in a linear array of three quantum dots can be manipulated, shuttled and read out individually with high fidelity, resembling the functioning principle of a CCD (charge-coupled device).
Electric field control of spin–orbit torque and magnetization switching can be achieved in a Cr-doped topological insulator thin film incorporated in a field-effect transistor structure, promising gate-controlled spintronic applications.
