Dancing and spinning around Moore’s law In its race to the bottom the semiconductor industry has come up with many inventive ways to grow smaller transistors. The current aim is to further miniaturise to 1.4 nm (14 Angström) CMOS nodes, achieved by extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, to keep up with ever increasing demand of next generation computing, AI and communication technologies. Moore’s law predicting that the number of transistors on a chip would double every two years is still extremely relevant, even after more than 60 years. But can we make a single atom transistor? Or even smaller..... Hence, we are looking into alternative ways of computing, using alternative materials. In this lecture, Dennis de Wal (a researcher in Bart van Wees' group), will tell you all about employing the dance of electron spin not only for information transport, but also for computations. Furthermore, he will show the secrets of making a nanodevice from scratch (and I mean really scratch) and above all show the fun in it!

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