News tagged with magnetic film

Patterned media technique achieves Terabit data recording densities

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to increase the recording densities of hard disk drives, patterned media has become one of the most promising strategies for achieving recording densities beyond 1 Tbit/in2. In pattern ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (23) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Reusable templates for the production of nanowires

Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory CNM's Nanofabrication and Electronic and Magnetic Materials and Devices groups, working with users from the University of Wisconsin-Stevenson Point, discovered a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Progress toward terabit-rate high-density recording

Research is closing in on the next-generation of ultra-high-density magneto-optical storage devices that could store more than 6,000 Terabits (6 petabits) of data, more than 70 times the contents of the entire U.S. Library ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Researchers 'stretch' a lackluster material into a possible electronics revolution

It's the Clark Kent of oxide compounds, and - on its own - it is pretty boring. But slice europium titanate nanometers thin and physically stretch it, and then it takes on super hero-like properties that could ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

First Soft X-rays Explore Ultrafast Magnetic Behaviors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first user experiments on the Soft X-ray instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source wrapped up last week. Research led by Andreas Scherz, a physicist at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists Create Nano-Patterned Superconducting Thin Films

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and the Brookhaven National Laboratory has fabricated thin films patterned with large arrays of nanowires and loops that are superconducting ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

50 TB Per Tape Cartridge: Japanese Researchers Develop Ultra High Capacity Tape Media

Hitachi Maxell and Tokyo Institute of Technology today jointly announced the development of ultra high capacity tape media with ultra thin nano-structured magnetic film by using of facing targets sputtering ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Polymer remembers four shapes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by General Motors has found that a polymer used commercially in fuel cell membranes can "memorize" four shapes, each assigned to a different temperature. The material could find ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Major step toward less energy loss in new electromagnetic materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University have managed for the first time to measure magnetic properties in new materials quantitatively with the help of electron microscopy - with unparalleled precision. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Taking the Stress Out of Magnetic Field Detection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have discovered that a carefully built magnetic sandwich that interleaves layers of a magnetic alloy with a few nanometers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1