Technologies like artificial intelligence, big data and internet of things (IoT) are resulting in a meteoric growth of the world’s computing infrastructure. So much so that computers are currently the world’s fastest growing consumers of electricity and have serious implications for our energy security and climate change. Spintronics, which broadly refers to the use of magnetic materials and the "spin" of electrons to perform computation, offers a path to make our computers exceedingly energy efficient, to allow for growing the world’s computing infrastructure sustainably.

The Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group at the MIT Media Lab is leading efforts in bringing such energy-efficient spintronic devices to reality, using a special class of magnetic materials—two-dimensional van der Waals magnets, which offer several advantages for translating to real world computers.
More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/2d...