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A new spin on spintronics

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By harnessing the way charge carriers move in a magnetic field, computing blocks based on semiconductor junctions have been made that are reconfigurable and can be interconnected to perform complex logic functions. See Letter p.72

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Figure 1: Bending avalanche carriers.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion2 were published online on 30 January 2013.

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  1. Sayeef Salahuddin is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.,

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Salahuddin, S. A new spin on spintronics. Nature 494, 43–44 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11944

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