Magnetic tunnel junctions can be used to harvest 2.4GHz RF energy and turn it into dc current, according to researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Tohoku University who have driven an LED for such a power converter. The devices in question are non-vortex uniformly-magnetised spin-torque oscillators (see diagram) Magnetic sensors have already ...

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