News tagged with magnetic film

Researchers 'stretch' a lackluster material into a possible electronics revolution

It's the Clark Kent of oxide compounds, and - on its own - it is pretty boring. But slice europium titanate nanometers thin and physically stretch it, and then it takes on super hero-like properties that could ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Patterned media technique achieves Terabit data recording densities

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to increase the recording densities of hard disk drives, patterned media has become one of the most promising strategies for achieving recording densities beyond 1 Tbit/in2. In pattern ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (23) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists Create Nano-Patterned Superconducting Thin Films

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and the Brookhaven National Laboratory has fabricated thin films patterned with large arrays of nanowires and loops that are superconducting ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Progress toward terabit-rate high-density recording

Research is closing in on the next-generation of ultra-high-density magneto-optical storage devices that could store more than 6,000 Terabits (6 petabits) of data, more than 70 times the contents of the entire U.S. Library ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Polymer remembers four shapes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by General Motors has found that a polymer used commercially in fuel cell membranes can "memorize" four shapes, each assigned to a different temperature. The material could find ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Major step toward less energy loss in new electromagnetic materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University have managed for the first time to measure magnetic properties in new materials quantitatively with the help of electron microscopy - with unparalleled precision. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

50 TB Per Tape Cartridge: Japanese Researchers Develop Ultra High Capacity Tape Media

Hitachi Maxell and Tokyo Institute of Technology today jointly announced the development of ultra high capacity tape media with ultra thin nano-structured magnetic film by using of facing targets sputtering ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Taking the Stress Out of Magnetic Field Detection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have discovered that a carefully built magnetic sandwich that interleaves layers of a magnetic alloy with a few nanometers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Reusable templates for the production of nanowires

Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory CNM's Nanofabrication and Electronic and Magnetic Materials and Devices groups, working with users from the University of Wisconsin-Stevenson Point, discovered a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Magnetic testing process helps ensure reliability of microelectronic devices

(Phys.org) -- Taking advantage of the force generated by magnetic repulsion, researchers have developed a new technique for measuring the adhesion strength between thin films of materials used in microelectronic ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First Soft X-rays Explore Ultrafast Magnetic Behaviors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first user experiments on the Soft X-ray instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source wrapped up last week. Research led by Andreas Scherz, a physicist at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0