Cassini, Voyager missions suggest new picture of Sun's interaction with galaxy
New data from NASA's Cassini mission, combined with measurements from the two Voyager spacecraft and NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, suggests that our sun and planets are surrounded by...
View ArticleMajor leap towards data storage at the molecular level
From smartphones to supercomputers, the growing need for smaller and more energy efficient devices has made higher density data storage one of the most important technological quests.
View ArticleOptical control of magnetic memory—New insights into fundamental mechanisms
This is an important clue for our theoretical understanding of optically controlled magnetic data storage media. The findings are published at August 25th in the journal Scientific Reports.
View ArticleBit data goes anti-skyrmions
Today's world, rapidly changing because of "big data", is encapsulated in trillions of tiny magnetic objects - magnetic bits - each of which stores one bit of data in magnetic disk drives. A group of...
View ArticleFast magnetic writing of data
Magnetic data storage has long been considered too slow for use in the working memories of computers. Researchers at ETH have now investigated a technique by which magnetic data writing can be done...
View ArticleQuantum sensors decipher magnetic ordering in a new semiconducting material
For the first time, physicists have successfully imaged spiral magnetic ordering in a multiferroic material. These materials are considered highly promising candidates for future data storage media....
View ArticleRecently discovered phenomenon could provide a way to bypass the limits to...
New research has shown that an exotic kind of magnetic behavior discovered just a few years ago holds great promise as a way of storing data—one that could overcome fundamental limits that might...
View Article10 years of the trapped rainbow—the revolution of slow light
A decade on from suggesting light can be dramatically slowed - or even stopped - by new materials, Ortwin Hess reviews the progress and applications.
View ArticleMagnetic skyrmions found to hold the potential of storing electronic data
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from the U.S., Germany and China has found that magnetic skyrmions could one day be used as a means of storing electronic data. In their paper published in...
View ArticleCan data save dolphins? How scientists are using NASA data to study link...
The age-old mystery of why otherwise healthy dolphins, whales and porpoises get stranded along coasts worldwide deepens: After a collaboration between NASA scientists and marine biologists, new...
View ArticleUsing electricity to switch magnetism
At TU Wien, researchers have taken a major step toward linking electrical and magnetic material properties, which is crucial for possible applications in electronics.
View ArticleScientists catch light squeezing and stretching next-gen data storage material
Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have seen for the first time how atoms in iron-platinum nanoparticles – a next-generation material for magnetic data...
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