Vox pops: The spin on electronics!

Physicists tell us whats hot in spintronics The physicsworld.com camera crew was at the Royal Society in London for a discussion meeting on spintronics. We asked a wide range of attendees what excites them most about electron spin. In the video, spintronics guru and meeting organizer Stuart Parkin of IBM Almaden describes how a racetrack memory works; Ian Appelbaum of the University of Maryland explains why humble silicon could be the material of choice for future spintronics circuits; and Theo Rasing of Radboud University in the Netherlands talks about his labs recent successes in flipping spins very quickly using laser light. Theyre just three of the experts in the video -- and if you are considering a career in spintronics, you can hear several PhD students explain why they find the field so exciting.