The Birth of Spinplasmonics 34
Roland Piquepaille writes "You might have heard of spintronics, a technology that uses the magnetic quantum properties of the spin of electrons, or plasmonics, another one which 'involves the transfer of light electromagnetic energy into a tiny volume, thus creating intense electric fields.' Now, researchers at the University of Alberta (U of A) have merged these two nascent research fields to create a new nanotechnology field called spinplasmonics. According to the researchers, this new technology, which was already used to control the quantum state of an electron's spin to switch a beam of terahertz light, could one day be the basis for 'computers with extraordinary capacities.'"
Extraordinary capacities (Score:3, Funny)
It'll run Vista.
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But only if you shut off all the eye-candy.
Quantum Histrionics (Score:2)
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Of every 100 new technologies posted to the Slashdot homepage, it seems 99 could one day be the basis for vaporware.
- Greg
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A New Technology .... (Score:4, Funny)
Just how extraordinary? (Score:4, Funny)
Computers today already have extraordinary capacities, at least compared to those of twenty years ago, which already had extraordinary capacities compared to those of forty years ago, and so on back to the first computer.
Let's have some numbers here, please. How much is that in Volkswagens or Libraries of Congress?
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You forgot the fraction of a human hair's width it'll fit in...
The heck with spintronics and spinplasmonics... (Score:1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindizzy [wikipedia.org]
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Roland Pigpail spam (Score:1)
Sorry (Score:2)
What i DO have a problem with is the fact that
Yeah, we KNOW they are all idiots, corrupt and incompetend, by why not even try to hide it a bit?
Btw, is cowboyneal back from brokeback mountain yet?
Um... (Score:1)
The important word here, of course, being "could".
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. As the computer singularity approaches the human stupidity that grows out of it accelerates. The resulting situation nullifies the singularity.
I suppose if we actually replicate the processes of the human brain in a chip or such we may begin to have artificial intelligence. At this time however; nothing we have even resembles this. The process we use to extract information from sensor data at this time has no capacity to develop information without be
DeLorean (Score:1)
- flux
), AND the light could equal extraordinary- capacity.
Then wouldn't that make this a "Flux Capacitor?"Corrections to the press release (Score:2)
"The spintronics field is barely a dozen years-old...The field of plasmonics, which is even younger than spintronics..."
This is patently untrue. Work on plasmon and surface plasmon physics has been going on for more than 50 years. It is certainly true that the name 'Plasmonics' is rather recent, and fabrication capabilities have advanced dramatically to better exploit these effects, but the field of study is fairly
light electromagnetic energy (Score:2)
Would anyone care to translate into English, and for bonus points give us an idea of why we should care?
I mean, I didn't even know that electromagnetic radiation came in light and heavy varieties.
I think someone played "Physics buzzword bingo"... (Score:2)
wow! (Score:1)
either no-one cares, or no-one actually understands a word of the summary...
In further developments.. (Score:1)
Overlords (Score:1)
I for one welcome our new spinplasmonic overlords.
(Sorry if someone had said that but it didn't show on search.)