Ordinary pencil lead holds extraordinary properties when shaved down to layers as thin as an atom. A single, atom-thin sheet of graphite, known as graphene, is just a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair. Under a microscope, ...
Nanophysics
Oct 18, 2023
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An international team of researchers at University of Montpellier, University of Aveiro and University of Coimbra has demonstrated magnetoelectric coupling in a paramagnetic ferroelectric crystal. In their paper published ...
From the spinning disc of a computer's hard drive to the varying current in a transformer, many technological devices work by merging electricity and magnetism. But the search to find a single material that combines both ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 21, 2015
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The push toward low powered, energy-saving devices has been a direction the electronics industry has always pursued. The switch to low powered LED lighting is a good example of this trend. Another avenue is the development ...
Nanophysics
Oct 1, 2021
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A research team led by Youtarou Takahashi from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science has demonstrated a novel phenomenon called magnetochiral dichroism, which prevents light from propagating parallel or antiparallel ...
General Physics
Oct 17, 2014
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Computer memory could become faster and cheaper thanks to research into a promising class of materials by University of Arkansas physicists.
General Physics
May 2, 2019
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Scientists at EPFL and PSI have discovered a new class of materials that can prove ideal for the implementation of spintronics.
General Physics
Oct 21, 2016
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MIT physicists have discovered an exotic "multiferroic" state in a material that is as thin as a single layer of atoms. Their observation is the first to confirm that multiferroic properties can exist in a perfectly two-dimensional ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 23, 2022
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic materials in which the north and south poles can be reversed with an electric field may be ideal candidates for low-power electronic devices, such as those used for ultra-high data storage. But finding ...
Condensed Matter
May 17, 2011
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Materials used in electronic devices are typically chosen because they possess either special magnetic or special electrical properties. However, an international team of researchers using neutron scattering recently identified ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 19, 2018
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