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Optimizing the electronic and magnetic properties of layered magnetic heterostructures for specific applications remains a challenging task for materials engineering. Characterization techniques employing Find out more... - Current-induced domain wall resonance – tuning by modification of material parameters
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The relentless drive for greater information storage capacity in physically smaller devices has pushed the size of components to scales where quantum mechanical effects become important. To aid such an Find out more... - Exchange coupling of a magnetic semiconductor to a magnetic metal
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Chirality, the property of an object to exist as distinguishable mirror image forms (known as enantiomers), is ubiquitous. Intriguingly, the chemistry of life is intrinsically homochiral, as biological Find out more... - Growing wires for a nanoscale circuit board
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Electronic devices are getting smaller all the time, and the challenge is to make the individual components as small as possible without affecting how they function. This includes the need for nanometre Find out more... - Better materials, better devices
18 Feb 2010
Extending our knowledge of how magnetic materials behave on an atomic scale has led to considerable technological advances, particularly in the area of information storage. University of Leeds scientists Find out more... - The intriguing behaviour of bilayer manganites
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Transition metal oxides are an intriguing class of materials since it is possible to drastically modify their properties by changing their temperature, applying a magnetic field or simply by irradiating Find out more... - Understanding Magnetism
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Extending our knowledge of how magnetic materials behave on an atomic scale has led to considerable technological advances, particularly in the area of information storage. Scientists have been using the Find out more... - A potential successor for carbon nanotubes?
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Highly anisotropic graphene materials such as aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests, oriented CNTs arrays have been universally considered as an excellent electrode for electroanalysis because they make Find out more...
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