{"id":9233,"date":"2013-02-03T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2013-02-03T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:41:45","slug":"magnetic-logic-makes-for-mutable-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9233","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic logic makes for mutable chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A research group based at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul, South Korea, has developed a circuit that may get around these problems. The device, described in a paper published on <i>Nature<\/i>\u2019s website on 30\u00a0January, uses magnetism to control the flow of electrons across a minuscule bridge of the semiconducting material indium antimonide (<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature11817\">S.\u00a0Joo <i>et al. Nature<\/i> http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature11817; 2013<\/a>). It is \u201ca new and interesting twist on how to implement a logic gate\u201d, says Gian Salis, a physicist at IBM\u2019s Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/magnetic-logic-makes-for-mutable-chips-1.12321\">Magnetic logic makes for mutable chips : Nature News &amp; Comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a revolutionary discovery if it can be manufactured relatively easily.\u00a0 And then there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Johnson notes that magnetism is already catching on in circuit design: some advanced devices are beginning to use a <strong>magnetic version of random access memory<\/strong>, a type of memory that has historically been built only with conventional transistors. \u201cI think a shift is already under way,\u201d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research group based at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul, South Korea, has developed a circuit that may get around these problems. The device, described in a paper published on Nature\u2019s website on 30\u00a0January, uses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9233\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[311,100,647,1040],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-integrated-circuits","tag-interesting-research","tag-semiconductors","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}