21/01/2024
Stuart Parkin is being recognized for engineering spintronic technologies, enabling digital information storage that serves as a foundation for today’s data-driven world.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced that Stuart Parkin, Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, is the recipient of the 2024 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering. Parkin is being recognized for engineering spintronic technologies, enabling digital information storage that serves as a foundation for today’s data-driven world.
Parkin pioneered the development of three novel spintronic technologies for massive data memory and storage. Through their ability to detect ever-smaller bits of magnetically stored information, Parkin’s invention of spintronic reading devices made possible the digital world of today. Spin-electronics, or ‘spintronics’ goes beyond conventional charge-based devices and technologies and uses a quantum mechanical property with unique attributes— the electron’s spin.
Sources and more information: NAE website; MPI website