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Disorder may be in order for 'spintronic' devices

Physicists at JILA are using ultrashort pulses of laser light to reveal precisely why some electrons, like ballet dancers, hold their spin positions better than others -- work that may help improve spintronic devices, which exploit the magnetism or 'spin' of electrons in addition to or instead of their charge.

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