Search results for molecular spintronics

General Physics Mar 15, 2018

Thermally driven spin current in DNA

An emerging field that has generated a wide range of interest, spin caloritronics, is an offshoot of spintronics that explores how heat currents transport electron spin. Spin caloritronics researchers are particularly interested ...

General Physics Feb 13, 2018

Three's company: New alloy sets magnetism benchmark

The burgeoning field of spintronics leverages electron spins—as opposed to their charge—to enhance solid-state devices like hard drives and cell phone components by prolonging battery life. Spintronic developments, however, ...

General Physics Feb 2, 2018

Scientists discover chiral phonons in a 2-D semiconductor crystal

A research team from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found the first evidence that a shaking motion in the structure of an atomically thin (2-D) material possesses a naturally ...

Materials Science Dec 13, 2017

Catching radical molecules before they disappear

While in most molecules, each electron finds a partner to pair up with, some electrons in radical molecules are left alone and unpaired. This configuration grants radicals with some unusual and interesting properties, which ...

General Physics Nov 28, 2017

Researchers achieve significant breakthrough in topological insulator-based devices for modern spintronic applications

Realisation of room temperature spin-orbit torque-driven magnetisation switching in topological insulator-ferromagnet heterostructures has promising applications in low power consumption and high integration density memories ...

General Physics Jun 26, 2017

X-ray technique provides a new window into exotic properties of an atomically thin material

An international team of researchers, working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, fabricated an atomically thin material and measured its exotic and durable ...

General Physics May 22, 2017

Magnetic order in a two-dimensional molecular chessboard

Achieving magnetic order in low-dimensional systems consisting of only one or two dimensions has been a research goal for some time. In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, Uppsala researchers show ...

General Physics Mar 6, 2017

Czech scientists develop magnetic carbon

A dream of many generations of researchers has been fulfilled by a discovery made by scientists at the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM) at the Palacky University in Olomouc. By using graphene, ...

Condensed Matter Feb 20, 2017

Ultrafast laser pulses meet magnetic materials in new research

Researchers have studied ultrafast non-equilibrium magnetization in correlated spin systems in recent years. At both fundamental and application levels, ultrafast laser pulse excitation and dynamics measurement provide an ...

Nanophysics Feb 14, 2017

Researchers use new approach to create triangulene molecule

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with IBM Research in Switzerland and the University of Warwick in the U.K. has successfully created a triangulene molecule by manipulating a precursor molecule physically using a scanning ...

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