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Theory leads the way to new devices

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Computer simulations suggest a route to making a capacitor that can store electron spin, as well as charge, by applying an electric field to a conventional capacitor.

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Figure 1: A 'spin capacitor' stores charge and spin.
Figure 2: Molecular-beam epitaxy can produce interfaces between dissimilar materials with extremely high quality.

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