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nature physics | VOL 3 | MARCH 2007 | /naturephysics 153 REVIEW ARTICLE DAVID D. AWSCHALOM1 AND MICHAEL E. FLATTé2 1Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 2Optical Science and Technology Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA e-mail: awsch@; michael_fl atte@ Semiconductor information-processing devices are among the most sophisticated, complex high-performance structures. As the constru