A new single-atom magnet developed by researchers in Switzerland provides tech companies an opportunity to create smaller yet longer-lasting magnetic storage devices such as memory cards and hard ...

Chop a magnet in two, and it becomes two smaller magnets. Slice again to make four. But the smaller magnets get, the more unstable they become; their magnetic fields tend to flip polarity from one ...

EPFL scientists have built a single-atom magnet that is the most stable to-date. The breakthrough paves the way for the scalable production of miniature magnetic storage devices. Magnetic storage ...

Chop a magnet in two, and it becomes two smaller magnets. Slice again to make four. But the smaller magnets get, the more unstable they become; their magnetic fields tend to flip polarity from one ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience at Ewha Womans University (QNS) have shown that dysprosium atoms resting on a thin insulating layer of magnesium oxide have ...

The energy needed to change the magnetic orientation of a single atom -- which determines its magnetic stability and therefore its usefulness in a variety of future device applications -- can be ...

Scientists have shown for the first time the maximum theoretical limit of energy needed to control the magnetization of a single atom. The fundamental work can have great implications for the future ...

Magnetic media, in the form of tapes and disks, have had a long run as the primary means of digital storage. In this hardware, clusters of magnetic atoms are set in a single magnetic orientation, ...

While many IT departments grapple with big data, IBM says it has the smallest data in the world: one bit on one atom. Researchers at IBM’s Almaden lab in San Jose, California, have written and read a ...

Researchers at the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience at Ewha Womans University (QNS) have shown that dysprosium atoms resting on a thin insulating layer of magnesium oxide have magnetic stability ...

Dr. Nicholas Chilton receives funding from the EPSRC, the Ramsay Memorial Trust and the University of Manchester. There is an adage that says that data will expand to fill all available capacity.

Single atoms deposited on a surface represent a sort of extension of the periodic table, because they can have properties that are different from those seen when the atoms are part of a molecule or an ...