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Magnetization in Small Components Can Now Be Filmed in the Laboratory

September 11, 2018

Technique for imaging magnetization dynamics developed in a joint project

Study Discovers a "Miracle Material" for Field of Spintronics

May 31, 2017

A new spin on electronics

Physicists Make First-Ever Direct Observation of Collisional Plasmoid Instability during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Setting

January 9, 2017

PPPL physicists report that they created the phenomenon in a laboratory setting where they could measure it directly and conf...

Improved Test of the Weak Nuclear Force from Beta Decay

September 6, 2016

Studies of the neutrinos emitted in the radioactive decay of nuclei held in an ion trap allow sensitive searches for new inte...

A New Way to Get Electricity From Magnetism

April 19, 2016

"Inverse spin Hall effect" works in several organic semiconductors

New Material Science Research may Advance Tech Tools

September 4, 2015

Findings advance the understanding of how these materials can be manipulated without having to discover new ones

Neutrons Find “Missing” Magnetism of Plutonium

July 13, 2015

Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium’s magnetism, which scient...

Long-Sought Magnetic Mechanism Observed in Exotic Hybrid Materials

April 14, 2015

The elusive quantum phenomenon—called van Vleck magnetism—may allow scientists to manipulate topological insulato...

Refrigerator Magnets

July 29, 2014

New theory predicts magnets may act as wireless cooling agents.

Harnessing Magnetic Vortices for Making Nanoscale Antennas

May 1, 2014

Scientists explore ways to synchronize spins for more powerful nanoscale electronic devices

Flipping the Switch on Magnetism in Strontium Titanate

April 2, 2014

Researchers have found a way to magnetize this material using light, an effect that persists for hours at a time.

Magnetic Behavior Discovery Could Advance Nuclear Fusion

March 21, 2014

Inspired by the space physics behind solar flares and the aurora, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and P...

Study Confirms Magnetic Properties of Silicon Nano-Ribbons

October 19, 2012

Nano-ribbons of silicon configured so the atoms resemble chicken wire could hold the key to ultrahigh density data storage an...

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