Rust Could Be the Secret to Next-Gen Computing
News Highlights: Rust Could Be the Secret to Next-Gen Computing.
Current silicon-based computer technology is very energy inefficient. Information and communication technology (ICT) is expected to use more than 20% of global electricity production1 by 2030. Finding ways to decarbonise the technology is thus a clear goal for energy savings. Professor Paolo Radaelli from the Department of Physics in Oxford, in collaboration with Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, has led research into alternatives to silicon, which would increase efficiency. His group’s surprising findings are published today in Nature – “Antiferromagnetic half skyrmions and bimerons at room temperature.” Cosmic eddies in rust, some of the antiferromagnetic textures they have found, can emerge at room temperature as excellent candidates for low-energy antiferromagnetic spintronics.
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IMAGE: A family of anti-ferromagnetic whirls in iron-oxide that are generated after performing a magnetic transition analogous to the Big Bang cooling. view more
Credit: R. Shetty, K. Jani, H.Jani.
Today s digital world generates vast amounts of data every second. Hence, there is a need for memory chips that can store more data in less space, as well as the ability to read and write that data faster while using less energy.
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), working with collaborators from the University of Oxford, Diamond Light Source (the United Kingdom s national synchrotron science facility) and University of Wisconsin Madison, have now developed an ultra-thin material with unique properties that could eventually achieve some of these goals. Their results were first published online in the journal