News tagged with magnetic flux

Superconducting strip could become an ultra-low-voltage sensor

Researchers studying a superconducting strip observed an intermittent motion of magnetic flux which carries vortices inside the regularly spaced weak conducting regions carved into the superconducting material. These vortices ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Long predicted but never observed: A new kind of quantum junction

A new type of quantum bit called a "phase-slip qubit", devised by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and their collaborators, has enabled the world's first-ever experimental demonstration ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study of switching behavior in differential dual spin valves reveals the role of interlayer couplings

Spin valves are essential building blocks in the magnetic sensors of read heads in hard disk drives. They consist of two magnetic layers separated by a non-magnetic layer and act as valves for electrons depending ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Neutron analysis reveals unique atom-scale behavior of 'cobalt blue'

Neutron scattering studies of "cobalt blue," a compound prized by artists for its lustrous blue hue, are revealing unique magnetic characteristics that could answer questions about mysterious properties in ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plasmoids and sheaths mean success or failure for solar eruptions

Our Sun experiences regular eruptions of material into space, but solar physicists still have difficulty in explaining why these dramatic events take place. Now a group of scientists from the University of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Fujitsu develops technology for design of compact, high-efficiency wireless charging systems

Fujitsu today announced the development of wireless recharging technology that enables the design of magnetic resonance-based wireless charging systems that can simultaneously recharge various types of portable ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extended solar minimum linked to changes in sun's conveyor belt

A new analysis of the unusually long solar cycle that ended in 2008 suggests that one reason for the long cycle could be a stretching of the Sun's conveyor belt, a current of plasma that circulates between ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Magnetic 'ropes' tie down solar eruptions (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from the Hinode spacecraft, a team of researchers from University College London (UCL) have revealed an immense magnetic structure that erupted to produce a dramatic solar eruption ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Students demonstrate flux pinning in low gravity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Cornell researchers recently tested their work on the mysterious physical phenomenon of flux pinning aboard a near-zero gravity aircraft.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time

Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, have for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (51) | comments 38