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Selective Creation of Magnetic Nanovortices Using Magnetic Fields

News - 3 Feb 2015

"With the help of magnetic fields, we can selectively create the magnetic nanovortices, then give them a shove so that they are deflected out of their equilibrium position", explains Dr....

Major Breakthrough in Methods of Information Processing in Nanomagnets

News - 9 Apr 2014

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have achieved a major breakthrough in the development of methods of information processing in nanomagnets. Using a new trick, they have been...

Novel Method Enables Reliable X-ray Microscopic Imaging in spite of Vibrations

News - 7 Feb 2013

X-ray microscopy requires radiation of extremely high quality. In order to obtain sharp images instrument and sample must stay absolutely immobile even at the nanometer scale during the recording....

Researchers Overcome Major Hurdle Associated with Magnetic Writing

News - 2 Aug 2011

Computer files that allow us to watch videos, store pictures, and edit all kinds of media formats are nothing else but streams of "0" and "1" digital data, that is, bits and bytes....

Physicists Develop Technique to Capture Magnetic "Fingerprints" of Certain Nanostructures

News - 29 Jan 2009

In the race to develop the next generation of storage and recording media, a major hurdle has been the difficulty of studying the tiny magnetic structures that will serve as their building blocks. Now...

Exploring the Concept of Nanostructured Storage Domains

News - 24 Oct 2008

In this information age, increased storage capacity is a central challenge for science and technology. A team of German and Italian researchers has pursued this by exploring the concept of...

Supercomputer Shows that Nanolayers Have Turning Sense

News - 9 May 2007

A team of researchers from Jülich and Hamburg have discovered a homochiral magnetic structure in thin metal layers Physicists from Research Centre Jülich and the University of Hamburg...

A Review of Microcantilevers for Sensing Applications

Article - 18 Jun 2007

While Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) have come into existence only in the last decade, they have application in almost all areas of science. Microcantilevers are the most basic form on MEMS.

Developing Data Storage Devices with Nanoparticles and Electron Microscopy

News - 31 Jan 2018

Cutting-edge research has shown that iron-platinum nanoparticles – a promising next-generation data storage material – respond to laser pulses by stretching and contracting, according to a...

Geometrically Encoded Magnetic Sensors (GEMs) for High-Resolution Remote Biological Sensing

News - 30 Mar 2015

Scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have devised and demonstrated a new, shape-shifting probe, about...