Characterization of magnetic nanovortices simplified
- Date:
- December 20, 2016
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- Forschungszentrum Juelich
- Summary:
- Processors and storage media making use of tiny structures called "skyrmions" could one day lead to the further miniaturization of IT devices and improve their energy efficiency significantly. Physicists have now put forward a method which could speed up the screening of suitable materials.
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Processors and storage media making use of tiny structures called "skyrmions" could one day lead to the further miniaturization of IT devices and improve their energy efficiency significantly.Physicists from Jülich have now put forward a method which could speed up the screening of suitable materials.
Magnetic nanovortices, so-called "skyrmions," count among the most promising candidates for the future of information technology. Processors and storage media making use of these tiny structures could one day lead to the further miniaturization of IT devices and improve their energy efficiency significantly. Materials possessing suitable vortices can be identified in particular by their topological charge, an essential characteristic of skyrmions. To determine this property experimentally has up to now been a very laborious process. Physicists from Jülich have now put forward a simpler method which could speed up the screening of suitable materials, using X-rays.
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Journal Reference:
- Manuel dos Santos Dias, Juba Bouaziz, Mohammed Bouhassoune, Stefan Blügel, Samir Lounis. Chirality-driven orbital magnetic moments as a new probe for topological magnetic structures. Nature Communications, 2016; 7: 13613 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13613
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