February 2011

Researchers from the KIT Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) and the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS) have created the world's smallest magnetic field sensor using Spin electronics and molecular electronics. The whole sensor is just one single organic molecule (H2-phthalocyanin that is also used as blue dye in ball pens).

Watch David Awschalom, a Spintronics pioneer, in a great talk at TEDxCaltech titled "Spintronics: Abandoning Perfection for the Quantum Age". This is a great introduction to Spintronics:

The KEIO Spintronics Research Center released a nice 'promotional' video explaining about the center and the relationship with other spintronics research centers: