{"id":603,"date":"2007-08-09T11:33:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T10:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=603"},"modified":"2007-08-09T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T10:33:23","slug":"welcome-to-the-world-of-spintronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the world of spintronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the scientific theme of this week&#8217;s NightHawk postings, let&#8217;s consider for a moment what might come after microelectronics which is reaching the physical limits of what can be achieved. The successor technology might be something called spintronics (spin-based electronics) which is also known as magnetoelectronics.<br \/>\nThis is a science which exploits the spin factor of sub-atomic particles to enable the development of quantum computing. By harnessing the twist and turns of particles &#8211; detected as a weak magnetic force &#8211; scientists hope to unlock almost infinite computing power and storage without the heat of microelectronics.<br \/>\nScientists are gathering in York this week to discuss the practicalities of this technology &#8211; more information <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6935638.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the scientific theme of this week&#8217;s NightHawk postings, let&#8217;s consider for a moment what might come after microelectronics which is reaching the physical limits of what can be achieved. The successor technology might be something called spintronics (spin-based electronics) which is also known as magnetoelectronics. This is a science which exploits the spin factor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}