The era of computing technologies based on charge currents is coming to an end after more than forty years of exponential increases in computing power and data storage that have been largely based on shrinking devices in two dimensions. A new era of “Beyond charge!” will evolve over the next decade that will likely be based on several new concepts. Firstly, devices whose innate properties are derived not from the electron’s charge but from spin currents and from ion currents. In some cases new functionality will arise that can extend charge based devices but in other case fundamentally new computing and data storage paradigms will evolve. Secondly, devices will inevitably become three-dimensional: novel means of constructing devices, both from bottom-up and top-down, will become increasingly important. Thirdly, bio-inspired devices that may mimic the extremely energy efficient computation systems in the biological world are compelling. In this talk I will focus on spintronics, namely, spin current based phenomena and devices and discuss the past, present and future of spintronic technologies.
Guest speaker
Prof. Dr. Stuart Parkin
Director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle and professor at the Institute of Physics of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Read more: https://www.mpi-halle.mpg.de/nise/director
Event Details
Seminar Rooms 3 & 4, E7 @ NUS, Level 3
1 December 2022, 12.00PM – 1.15PM
Lunch will be provided.
This event is open for registrations. Click here: https://tinyurl.com/GroundBreakers2