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Towards next-generation devices through computer nanomaterial design for semiconductor spintronics
[Keio Spintronics Network - Yoshida Laboratory , Osaka University] The Yoshida Laboratory in Osaka Universitys Graduate School of Engineering Science designs new functional materials and devices, and discovers and explains new properties. Advances in todays industries require a variety of materials. The Yoshida Lab uses quantum mechanics to predict and design the properties of materials before doing experiments. This helps the researchers to design device materials with higher precision. Q. The materials were currently working on are made by adding the magnetic metal manganese to the semiconductors indium arsenide and gallium arsenide. One of our goals is to discover materials with superior properties by using different combinations of these materials. Todays integrated circuits, which utilize electronic charge, have advanced through microfabrication. However, its clear from Moores Law that such progress will reach its limit in the near future. To achieve next-generation devices that overcome this limit, research is under way on semiconductor spintronics, which uses another property of electrons - their spin degree of freedom. However, the ferromagnetic materials needed for semiconductor spintronics have only been confirmed to function at extremely low temperatures. The Yoshida Lab is trying to achieve a breakthrough, by means of computer nanomaterial design through first-principles calculations using quantum mechanics. Q. The good thing about this method is that it isnt ...From:keiouniversityViews:674 1ratingsTime:03:32More inScience Technology

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