Spintronics
2D Half Metal Created at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich have successfully created the worlds’s first experimentally verified two-dimensional half metal—a material that conducts electricity using electrons of just one spin type: either “spin-up” or “spin-down”. Their findings, now published as 'Editors' Suggestion' in Physical Review Letters, mark a milestone in the quest for materials enabling energy-efficient spintronic that go beyond conventional electronics.