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The WUN Spintronics Consortium consists of more than 30 partners including 10 WUN universities. The consortium brings together the expertise of the partners and carries out collaborative research with the aim of impacting significantly on science and society.

The broad aims of the project are:

To achieve major breakthroughs in the exciting but challenging area of spintronics which is playing an increasingly significant role in high density data storage, microelectronics, sensors, quantum computing and bio-medical applications among others. It is expected that the impact of spintronics on the microelectronics industry could eventually be comparable to the development of the transistor more than 50 years ago. The multi-disciplinary nature of spintronics requires expertise in electronics, material science, physics and computer science. There are more than ten WUN universities with world leading research groups in spintronics and related areas.

The next WUN Spintronics Conference will be held at the University of Sydney in July 2012.