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Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time

Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (48) | comments 38

Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, have for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real ...


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 ...


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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Shielding for ambitious neutron experiment

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0

In science fiction stories it is either the inexhaustible energy source of the future or a superweapon of galactic magnitude: antimaterial. In fact, antimaterial can neither be found on Earth nor in space, is extremely complex ...


Magnetic Fields Around a Dipol

3-D Imaging -- First Insights Into Magnetic Fields

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 30, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (47) | comments 4

3-D images are not only useful in medicine; the observation of internal structures is also invaluable in many other fields of scientific investigation. Recently, researchers from the Hahn-Meitner-Institute ...


New Nanoparticle Structure Boosts Magnetic Properties

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created Dec 19, 2005 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Magnetic nanoparticles have shown promise as contrast-enhancing agents for improving cancer detection using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as miniaturized heaters capable of killing malignant cells, and as targeted drug ...


Mass-Producing Tunable Magnetic Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Taking a cue from the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at Stanford University has developed a method of producing unlimited quantities of highly magnetic nanoparticles suitable for use as magnetic resonance ...


Creating Highly Sought Magnetic Nanoparticles in One Step

Creating Highly Sought Magnetic Nanoparticles in One Step

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 02, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a one-step technique for producing a class of magnetic nanoparticles that could be used in everything from biomedical applications to data storage. ...


Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and ...


Marohn describes breakthrough imaging technology

Researchers are on the path to creating nano-MRI images

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers are devising methods to detect the magnetic fields of individual electrons and atomic nuclei, which they hope to use to make a nanoscale version of magnetic resonance imaging.


Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma

Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it ...


Unlocking the secret of the Kondo Effect

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (46) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists including researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL (University College London) and the IBM Almaden Research Center has forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing ...


Manipulating Magnetism for Future Data-Storage Devices

Manipulating Magnetism for Future Data-Storage Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 30, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (49) | comments 0 feature

In an important step toward future data-storage technologies based on magnetism, a research group has determined how to control the magnetization of a “magnetic vortex,” a curling nanometer-sized magnetic ...



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