AI-generated conceptual illustration of a descending staircase of crystalline layers with a twisting ribbon of light cascading down while keeping its spiral
Spintronics

A staircase of crystals keeps spin alive long enough to use

An HKUST team has stretched room-temperature spin coherence in a perovskite to about five nanoseconds, roughly 300 times longer than a conventional single well. The devices built on it are proofs of concept, not products.