Materials with magnetic nanostructures have a wide range of potential applications. One area is so-called spintronics, with ...

Light beams of varying intensities (yellow cylinders) help visualize magnetic domains (light and dark areas), separated by domain walls (red lines). When something draws us in like a magnet, we take a ...

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed the first ...

A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more ...

Perpendicular magnetic recordings can now be switched from hard (permanent) to soft (erasable) by way of a discovery recently made at the University College London. Using a designer material with ...

A domain wall is the thin interfacial region inside a ferroic material where an order parameter – magnetization, electric polarization, or spontaneous strain – changes from one domain orientation or ...

Everyone knows that holding two magnets together will lead to one of two results: they stick together, or they push each other apart. From this perspective, magnetism seems simple, but scientists have ...

Magnetic micro-flowers concentrate applied magnetic fields around samples, allowing high-field nanoscale imaging and ...

One of the common modes of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is Magnetic force microscopy (MFM). As indicated by the name, SPM is used to map magnetic properties. On the nanoscale, MFM probes local ...

(Nanowerk News) When something draws us in like a magnet, we take a closer look. When magnets draw in physicists, they take a quantum look. Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University and the ...