A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but ...

Magnetic gears represent a transformative approach to power transmission, utilising magnetic fields to transmit torque between rotating shafts without physical contact. This contactless operation ...

The ability to reliably switch the direction of magnetic alignment in materials, a process known as magnetization switching, ...

Researchers created platinum-mixed metallic magnetic nanofilms that are 5x more efficient -- the ultimate energy-saving solution. Researchers at Tohoku University have achieved a significant ...

Materials that combine topological electronic properties and quantum magnetism are of high current interest, for the quantum many-body physics that can unfold in them and for possible applications in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A dumbbell-shaped nanoparticle powered just by the force and torque of light has become the world's fastest-spinning object. Scientists at Purdue University created the object, ...

When circularly polarized light is incident perpendicular to the surface of a nano-thin film of cobalt-platinum alloy, which consists of cobalt and platinum, an opto-magnetic torque is generated (red ...

Dirac matter is an intriguing class of materials with rather peculiar properties: electrons in these materials behave as if they had no mass. The most prominent Dirac material is graphene, but further ...