Spintronic devices, which exploit the spin of electrons for information processing and storage, are a key emerging technology in electronics. Supriyo Datta explains how emulating optical phenomena inspired his prediction of the spin transistor.
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Datta, S. How we proposed the spin transistor. Nat Electron 1, 604 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0163-4
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