A research group led by Professor Hideo Ohno at Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems (CSIS), Tohoku University has successfully demonstrated Large Scale Integrated Circuits (LSI) systems which require no standby power, based on spintronics technology which utilizes electric charge and spin of electron through collaboration with other institutions, such as NEC Corporation. They have also developed a new highly reliable perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction, a spintronics nonvolatile device for the first time in the world. This achievement was partly acquired from a research program "Research and Development of Ultra-low Power Spintoronics-based VLSIs" supported by Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST) by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and was presented in an international conference "2011 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits" held in Kyoto from June 13 to 17, 2011.

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