New kind of MRI enables study of magnets for computer memory

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Image of an array of microscopic magnets taken with scanned probe ferromagnetic resonance force microscopy -- a new imaging technique invented by Ohio State University physicists and colleagues. The disk-shaped magnets measure only two micrometers (m ...
Image of an array of microscopic magnets taken with scanned probe ferromagnetic resonance force microscopy -- a new imaging technique invented by Ohio State University physicists and colleagues. The disk-shaped magnets measure only two micrometers (millionths of a meter) across. Image courtesy of Ohio State University.

(PhysOrg.com) -- What is there to see inside a magnet that's smaller than the head of a pin? Quite a lot, say physicists who've invented a new kind of MRI technique to do just that.


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