Prof. Wang with his research team is funded by a 4-year, $3.1 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to develop novel electronics for the protection of the U.S. economy and its national security. This grant will support the investigation of new approaches to advance nanostructured thin film devices known as Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs), that are used in a variety of electronics, including hard drives and sensors. "The University of Minnesota has been a leader for years in spintronics research. We have been persistent in pursuing MTJ based computation for more than 15 years. In fact, our team proposed the very early idea to use magnetic tunnel junctions for the computation in random access memory (CRAM)," says Prof. Wang. "This federal funding will bring us to the next level of innovation."

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