alt Hacker NewsOh wait, you're right. I misread the title. Don't we already have room temperature semiconductors?
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DanHulton • yesterday at 10:33 PM
Oh wow, I had the same misread and the same gut reaction.
Oh wait, you're right. I misread the title. Don't we already have room temperature semiconductors?
Oh wow, I had the same misread and the same gut reaction.
Yep. This has interesting magnetic properties.
In magnetic materials, you must calculate separately the current with spin up and spin down and there ara meny interesting applications. My favorite is[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance
[1] Was. Because it has used for hard disks (see the applications section). Now SSD ruins the interesting anecdote.