News tagged with magnetic property

Engineered materials: Custom-made magnets

A novel approach to designing artificial materials could enable magnetic devices with a wider range of properties than those now available. An international team of researchers have now extended the properties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fossilized plant matter points to desertification near Tibetan Plateau

Roughly 22 million years ago, at the onset of the Miocene, the Tibetan Plateau started to lift upward. The rising land curbed the flow of moist air from the south, sparking the onset of central Asian desertification. Or, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find possible evidence of Majorana fermions

(Phys.org) -- Researchers working out of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have constructed a device that appears to offer some evidence of the existence of Majorana fermions; the elusive particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Rare earth metals: Another challenge for the green economy?

If you follow the clean energy dialogue, then you may have encountered discussions about the role of rare earth metals at some point in the last year or two. If not, read on, because rare earths should not ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

'Anti-atomic fingerprint': Physicists manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms for the first time (Update)

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Their results ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicists finds new path toward increasing semiconductor functionality

(PhysOrg.com) -- The past decade has seen the emergence of the field of spintronics, aimed at increasing the efficiency of information processing and computer memories. The idea behind spintronics is to harness the magnetic ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mn-doped ZnS is unsuitable to act as a dilute magnetic semiconductor

Dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) have recently been a major focus of magnetic semiconductor research. A laboratory from the University of Science and Technology of China explored the feasibility of doping ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Magnetic spin on non-magnetic materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnologists from the University of Twente's MESA+ and MIRA research institutes have developed a method for incorporating magnetic elements into non-magnetic materials in a highly controlled ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Manipulating the texture of magnetism

Knowing how to control the combined magnetic properties of interacting electrons will provide the basis to develop an important tool for advancing spintronics: a technology that aims to harness these properties ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Shaken, not heated: The ideal recipe for manipulating magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic properties of an important class of electronic materials with ultra-short pulses of terahertz (mid-infrared) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hot attraction in bimetals: A cyano-bridged vanadium-niobium bimetal assembly with a Curie temperature of 210 K

Cyano-bridged bimetal assemblies attract attention because of their magnetic properties such as photomagnetization, humidity-induced magnetization, and nonlinear magneto-optical effect, which make them suitable ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Ultrafast magnetic processes observed 'live' using X-ray laser

In first-of-their-kind experiments performed at the American X-ray laser LCLS, a collaboration led by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute has been able to precisely follow how the magnetic structure ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

World's first magnetic soap produced

Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved in water, that responds to a magnetic field when placed in solution. The soap's magnetic properties were ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New magnetic-field-sensitive alloy could find use in novel micromechanical devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Led by a group at the University of Maryland (UMd), a multi-institution team of researchers has combined modern materials research and an age-old metallurgy technique to produce an alloy that ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electrically controlling magnetic polarization of nuclei offers new way to store quantum information

Storing information in long-lasting quantum states is a prerequisite for building quantum computers. Intrinsic properties of nuclei known as magnetic spins are good storage candidates because they interact ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0