%0 Journal Article %K Film %K Semiconductor %K Electric fields %K Magnetism %K Computer simulation %K Electric field %K Priority journal %K Theoretical study %K Ferromagnetic material %K Magnetic moments %K Nanoanalysis %K Short survey %K Device %K Conventional capacitors %K Electron spins %K New devices %K Conductance %A Ramamoorthy Ramesh %B Nature Nanotechnology %D 2008 %G eng %I Nature Publishing Group %P 7-8 %R 10.1038/nnano.2007.430 %T Thin films: Theory leads the way to new devices %V 3 %X Computer simulations suggest a route to making a capacitor that can store electron spin, as well as charge, by applying an electric field to a conventional capacitor. © 2008 Nature Publishing Group.