This session provides a brief history of DARPA's quest to revolutionize electronics by exploiting the electron's spin degree of freedom. The success of these efforts led to electron spin becoming a part of consumer electronics. Speakers discuss how spin continues to provide a key for future electronics to become perhaps as fundamental a building block as electronic charge. Jon Slaughter, who played a key role in the development of a major magnetic memory called MRAM for Magnetic Random Access Memory; David Awschalom, who made key discoveries on the use of spin for semiconductor electronics and quantum information; and Ale Lukaszew, who is pushing the boundaries of spin for advanced memory and quantum electronics using topological protection (skyrmions) and nonequilibrium physics (time crystals). Each speaker describes their vision of the future of spintronics.

Moderator
Dr. Stuart Wolf – Institute for Defense Analysis

Panelists
Dr. David Awschalom – University of Chicago
Dr. Rosa Alejandra Lukaszew – DARPA, DSO
Dr Jon Slaughter – IBM Research

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