Spin specialists meet at Sydney

By Richard North 24 July 2012 Scientists working on the next generation of faster, smaller and more complex electronic devices are meeting at the University of Sydney at a conference hosted by the Worldwide Universities Network. The three-day event brings together world experts in the frontier science of spintronics - a new technology that is expected to replace the conventional digital logic used in IT systems. Spintronics is named after the way that electrons spin whilst they move. Scientists hope to exploit this characteristic in electrical circuits to provide a new way of processing information that is infinitely more powerful than the old binary system of ones and zeros. Professor Simon Ringer, Director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis and part of the WUN Spintronics Consortium, said the potential benefits for industry and society were huge. "There are big implications around energy and. The outlooks are very exciting because they involve a steep change in our capacity to generate and store energy, and in.