%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.