Editing Spin transistor (section)

{{Short description|Potential transistor-like device}}
The '''magnetically sensitive transistor,''' also known as the '''spin transistor, spin field-effect transistor''' ('''spinFET'''), '''Datta–Das spin transistor''' or '''spintronic transistor ('''named for [[spintronics]], the technology which this development spawned), originally proposed in 1990 by [[Supriyo Datta]] and Biswajit Das,<ref name="K">{{Cite journal|last1=Datta|first1=Supriyo|author-link=Supriyo Datta|last2=Das|first2=Biswajit|year=1990|title=Electronic analog of the electrooptic modulator|journal=Applied Physics Letters|volume=56|issue=7|pages=665–667|bibcode=1990ApPhL..56..665D|doi=10.1063/1.102730}}</ref> is an alternative design on the common [[transistor]] invented in the 1940s. This device was considered one of the ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' milestones in [[Spin (physics)|spin]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gerstner |first=Ed |date=2008 |title=Information in a spin |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/milespin20 |journal=Nature Physics |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=S18 |doi=10.1038/nphys875 |issn=1745-2481}}</ref> A new all-electric all-semiconductor design was later developed as an alternative approach to realizing spin transistor functionality in a CMOS-compatible platform.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chuang |first1=Pojen |last2=Ho |first2=Sheng-Chin |last3=Smith |first3=L. W. |last4=Sfigakis |first4=F. |last5=Pepper |first5=M. |last6=Chen |first6=Chin-Hung |last7=Fan |first7=Ju-Chun |last8=Griffiths |first8=J. P. |last9=Farrer |first9=I. |last10=Beere |first10=H. E. |last11=Jones |first11=G. A. C. |last12=Ritchie |first12=D. A. |last13=Chen |first13=Tse-Ming |title=All-electric all-semiconductor spin field-effect transistors |journal=Nature Nanotechnology |date=January 2015 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=35–39 |doi=10.1038/nnano.2014.296|arxiv=1506.06507 }}</ref>