Nanophysics
Mar 28, 2011
Heavy metals open path to high temperature nanomagnets
How would you like to store all the films ever made on a device the size of an I-phone?
Search results for molecular spintronics
General Physics
Jan 4, 2011
Device controls, measures spin current injected into semiconductor material
An international research team formed by physicists from Hitachi, the University of Cambridge and University of Nottingham in the UK, Charles University in the Germany, the Institute of Physics (ASCR), in the Czech Republic, ...
General Physics
Dec 7, 2010
Elusive spintronics success could lead to single chip for processing and memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have shown that a magnetically polarised current can be manipulated by electric fields.
General Physics
Oct 19, 2010
Study of tiny magnets may advance their use in microelectronics
In the world of the very small, researchers at Shanxi University in China have announced progress in understanding the single-molecule magnet, which combines the classical macroscale properties of a magnet with the quantum ...
General Physics
Jun 15, 2009
Scientists discover magnetic superatoms
A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table - that one day may be used to create molecular ...
General Physics
Apr 15, 2009
Physicists put a new spin on electrons
In the first demonstration of its kind, researchers at the University of British Columbia have controlled the spin of electrons using a ballistic technique--bouncing electrons through a microscopic channel of precisely constructed, ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 12, 2008
Researchers show that plants can accumulate nanoparticles in tissues
Researchers at the University of Delaware have provided what is believed to be the first experimental evidence that plants can take up nanoparticles and accumulate them in their tissues
Sep 8, 2008
Carbon molecule with a charge could be tomorrow's semiconductor
Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications.
General Physics
Jun 10, 2008
Industrial dye holds the key to advancing spintronics
Commonly used industrial dyes hold the key to advancing the new science of 'spintronics', say researchers working on a new a £2.5 million study.
General Physics
Feb 20, 2008
Aromaticity may occur in unexpected materials
Shiv Khanna, Ph.D., professor of physics, and colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University and Penn State, were recently highlighted in the Editor’s Choice section of the journal Science, as well as the trade publication ...
