Skyrmions are microscopic magnetic vortices that can form in certain materials. First detected in 2009, they are of interest to researchers because they could be harnessed for new forms of data storage. As theoreticians predicted, ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 19, 2023
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One of the greatest obstacles to producing energy via fusion on Earth is the formation and growth of small magnetic field imperfections in the core of experimental fusion reactors. These reactors, called tokamaks, confine ...
Plasma Physics
May 3, 2018
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New types of solotronic structures, including the world's first quantum dots containing single cobalt ions, have been created and studied at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. The materials and elements used ...
Nanophysics
Jan 27, 2014
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Magnets are well-known from the physics lessons at school, but they are hardly covered in chemistry lectures; and it is still a chemical process by means of which researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have ...
Materials Science
Oct 13, 2015
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When doping a disordered magnetic insulator material with atoms of a nonmagnetic material, the conventional wisdom is that the magnetic interactions between the magnetic ions in the material will be weakened.
Condensed Matter
Oct 24, 2011
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Sometimes a molecule can only undergo a particular chemical reaction if it forms a so-called host-guest complex together with another molecule—the two molecules are then bound together not by covalent bonds but by intermolecular ...
Materials Science
Oct 17, 2019
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(Phys.org)—World records have been broken this year not only in sports by Olympic athletes in London, but also in high temperature superconducting magnet technology by the Superconducting Magnet Division (SMD) staff at ...
General Physics
Oct 9, 2012
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A new way of switching the magnetic properties of a material using just a small applied voltage, developed by researchers at MIT and collaborators elsewhere, could signal the beginning of a new family of materials with a ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 21, 2014
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A Dartmouth-led study sheds light on the impact of plasma waves on high-energy electrons streaking into Earth's magnetic field from space.
Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2015
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Graphene and related materials hold promise for the future of electrochemical sensors—detectors that measure the concentration of oxygen, toxic gases, and other substances—but many applications require greater sensitivity ...
Nanophysics
Jan 17, 2013
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