May 2012

Professor Hideo Ohno from the Laboratory of Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, at Tohoku University is this year's IEEE David Sarnoff Award winner, a very prestigious award. Professor Ohno was in contention for this year's Nobel prize in physics. Here's a 2010 video showing Ohno's group work on integrated circuits using spintronics:

Researchers from the University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky have demonstrated a material in which the spins can be set in a controlled manner. The team suggest using cobalt atoms on a graphene sheet.

The researchers have used state-of-the-art theoretical computations to prove this.