May 30, 2006
Spinotronics to reduce power consumption of cell phones
As gadgets like cell phones and I-pods shrink in size, scientists say technology is being developed to reduce power consumption by such gadgets, reports Sify.
"A team led by an Indian scientist, Jagadesh Moodera at MIT has developed a new material that not only increases the computing power and flexibility of these and other electronic devices, but also dramatically reduces their power consumption.
... Moodera and his team have developed a magnetic semiconductor material, a chromium doped indium oxide that is seen as a major development in the field of Spinotronics.
Spin electronics or spinotronics is the science of integrating the functionality of both charge and spin of the electrons in the computer chips for better functionality. The increase in the growth in hard disk capacity from 100 MB to 500 GB is largely credited to spinotronics".
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