A laser trick in nanometer-thin magnets hints at faster storage and computing without exotic laboratory conditions ...

Concept of the helimagnet-based memory devices. The directions of the atomic magnetic moments, depicted by the colored allows, are arranged into a spiral. Chirality, the right- and left-handed ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have shown that careful engineering of materials interfaces can unlock new applications for ...

Researchers demonstrate how to change the frequency of the collective magnetic oscillations of a material by up to 40% by ...

Researchers from The Ohio State University and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico investigated a new material that could potentially increase the capacity of magnetic storage devices. They ...

Hot stuff Heat-assisted magnetic recording is set to boost the storage capacity of hard disks still further. (Courtesy: Seagate Technology) When it comes to storing data, you might think that magnetic ...

By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...

Warnings about magnets and gadgets have been passed down like tech folklore, often without much explanation. The reality is more nuanced: some electronics are genuinely vulnerable to magnetic fields, ...

Researchers have mapped magnetic fields in three dimensions, a major step toward solving what they call the 'grand challenge' of revealing 3D magnetic configuration in magnetic materials. The work has ...

Skyrmions are considered promising candidates for tomorrow's information memory devices which may be able to achieve enormous data storage and processing capacities. A research team has developed a ...

North or south may point the way to a new generation of small systems. Researchers at a national laboratory have discovered a way to construct microelectrical systems using magnetic fields to arrange ...