A Silicon Spintronic Memory That Lasts

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A Silicon Spintronic Memory That Lasts
Stores spin for minutes instead of microseconds

In what could prove to be a big development in the nascent field of spintronics, scientists have succeeded in storing information for almost 2 minutes using a magnetic property of phosphorus nuclei embedded in silicon. For this property, called spin, 2 minutes is an eternity. The breakthrough could lead to new kinds of silicon-based memories that might even work at the level of a single atom.