TEDxCaltech - David Awschalom - Spintronics: Abandoning Perfection for the Quantum Age

David Awschalom is a professor of physics, electrical, and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Peter J. Clarke Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. He is a pioneer in the field of semiconductor spintronics, exploring the quantum mechanical behavior of charges and spins in nanostructures and the foundations of solid-state quantum information processing. David is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Investigator Prize and David Turnbull Award (Materials Research Society), the International Magnetism Prize and Néel Medal (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), the Oliver E. Buckley Prize (APS), the Europhysics Prize from the European Physical Society, and the Newcomb Cleveland Prize (AAAS).
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[@flaskwater44]

I worked with Dr Awschalom at UCSB. He's a genius. He needs a bigger platform.

[@peterhartman55]

I love these TED talks.

[@dr.nityasagarjena4512]

Wonderful presentation...

[@coldblaze100]

Watching this in 2020 like...

[@9xo3e]

e.g. the number "1" is stored in a computer in a byte e.g. "00000001" A byte is made up of 8 bits (either 0 or 1 - Binary) . To store these bytes we use atoms. Over time we've been able to use less atoms to store these bytes which therefore means less room is taken up, and technology can get smaller. The graph shown represents less atoms being used to store bytes over time.

[@robbyhoffman7179]

Here because I saw a company that claims to use the concept of spintronics to increase the bioactivity of plant matter. Doing my research it seems like it makes sense. They use MRI magnets to create electromagnetic frequencies to increase the spin of electrons which in theory recharges the molecules which means that they can get to your receptors much easier. Has anyone else heard about this? Company called Quanta Technology.

[@garycai7748]

Semiconductors are like people...it's the defects that make them interesting. What a line!

[@someoneelse1534]

They knew that this talk would have everyone jumping out of their seats in excitement so they put some precariously placed instruments behind him to distract everyone

[@HughChing]

Thank you for supporting fuzzy logic.

[@gpsawyer]

this will more likely happen with graphene, but same concept. very intriguing

[@captainmorgan7371]

Would this talk of been given before the discovery of graphene ? Is that why he's talking about diamond at the time?

[@gig2734]

Graphene was discovered in 2004, but it is only now that we can increase the production of graphene.

[@kylecrowson4033]

He does mention the same process to create it using methane, but like diamond, graphene is just a different form of carbon.

[@nikitagohel5351]

some one plz help me to understood the graph...........in this

[@AchwaqKhalid]

Yes indeed the Quantum mechanics is the science of the future, That guy seems to have a really good sense of humor by the way.

[@MrBTie]

lol 0:13

[@GiRR007]

wtf this was in 2011...

[@maptuffs]

Am shocked, seems like nothing has came of this