The recovery of waste heat in all kinds of processes poses one of the main challenges of our time to making established processes more energy-efficient and thus more environmentally friendly. The Spin Seebeck effect (SSE) ...
General Physics
Sep 7, 2015
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An article published today in Nature Communications presents a new method to determine the spin lifetime anisotropy of spin-polarized carriers in graphene using oblique spin precession. The work, led by ICREA research Prof ...
Nanophysics
May 10, 2016
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Protons spin. It's an intrinsic property that can affect experiments at accelerators that use beams of protons. Yet flipping proton spins could offer insights into nuclear physics experiments that study the first moments ...
General Physics
Apr 18, 2019
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Half of all the transistors in your iPhone use positively-charged 'holes', rather than negatively-charged electrons to operate.
General Physics
Nov 14, 2017
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A team led by Rutgers University and including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has demonstrated an X-ray imaging technique that could enable the development of smaller, ...
General Physics
Dec 5, 2018
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Researchers at University of Tsukuba have synthesized a helical, magnetically active conductive polymer with exceptionally high optical activity using cyclosporine A as a helix-inducing agent. This polymer exhibits distinct ...
Polymers
Mar 4, 2024
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Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have discovered a switch to control the spin current, a mechanism needed for information processing with full spin-based devices.
General Physics
May 29, 2018
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A research group has successfully synthesized a "half-metal" material, achieving a rare feat in the pursuit of zero magnetization.
Materials Science
Jul 15, 2022
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"Spintronics" is a new class of electronics where charge and spin are utilized. A pure spin current, flow of spin without charge current, is one of the important physical quantities in its field, which could play an essential ...
General Physics
Dec 16, 2015
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When the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Uranus almost 50 years ago, it discovered a magnetic mystery. Unlike on most planets, the ice giant's magnetic field is tilted roughly 60° away from its spin axis, creating an asymmetric ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 1, 2024
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