Flawed Crystals are Beautiful in the Eyes of Scientists

Jewelers may disagree, but flaws in a crystal can be a good thing. Recently published research suggests that crystals with specific defects can be useful for making future computers more efficient. Enter the spin zone Spin, like charge and mass, is a fundamental property of subatomic particles, and is what makes certain particles magnetic and others not. And spintronic devices, as the name suggests, are a relatively new class of devices that use the spins in addition to the charges of electrons ...