News tagged with magnetic data storage


Creating Denser Magnetic Memory

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues afflicting magnetic memory is the fact that it is difficult to store information for as long as 10 years. In order to overcome this problem, scientists and engineers have been looking for ...


Multiferroics -- making a switch the electric way

Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and ...





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Student Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic Sensors

Student Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic Sensors

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Paul Morrow has come a long way from his days as an elementary school student, pulling apart his mother’s cassette player. The talented young physicist has developed two innovations that could vastly improve ...


French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (31) | comments 16

French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.


New invention that could change design of future memory storage devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 1

A research team at Singapore A*STAR's Data Storage Institute (DSI) has invented a new phase change material that has the potential to change the design of future memory storage devices.


Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control ...


Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor

Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated for the first time the existence of a key magnetic—as opposed to electronic—property of specially ...


New control of nanoscale 'magnetic tornadoes' holds promise for data storage

New control of nanoscale 'magnetic tornadoes' holds promise for data storage

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the human scale, the tightly wrapped spinning columns of air in a tornado contain terrifying destructive power that ravages communities. At the nanoscale, however, closely coiled magnetic ...


Spinning into the future of data storage

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have improved their understanding of the inner workings of our computers and mp3 players, thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic spintronics'.


Scientists discover magnetic superatoms

Scientists discover magnetic superatoms

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 7

A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table - that one day may be used to ...


Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories

Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories

Physics / Condensed Matter

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of French researchers has recently demonstrated that it ...


Progress Toward New Storage Media: Switchable Nanostripes

Progress Toward New Storage Media: Switchable Nanostripes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...



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