The Worldwide Universities Network provides the opportunities of coordinated research in rapidly developing areas of global significance through an international alliance of UK, US, Chinese and other European Universities.

Spintronics has been recognized as one of the demanding area of researches which could provide a major break through in technologies involving conventional electronics.

Spintronics is a multi disciplinary area of research and requires a coordinated effort from all related fields in order to pursue for research with challenging themes.

Many of the WUN members have pioneered the investigation of Spintronics and have their individual recourses to form a highly effective research network.

The above are the main ingredients which received the attention of WUN and a grand challenge project has been undertaken headed by University of York with the support from WUN to bring the partners together for creating a significant impact on the ongoing research in Spintronics. In particular, to identify and to solve the challenges in the following categories:

• understanding fundamental physics
• development of Spintronic materials
• utilization of Nanofabrication techniques
• integration with microelectronics
• integration with quantum computation.

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last revised 2/27/2008