Giant magnetocaloric materials could have large impact on the environment
...ect due to unusual coupling between the material's magnetism and chemical structure. Understanding this coupl...y beams at the Advanced Photon Source to probe the magnetism of gadolinium and germanium ions as the material underwent its bond-breaking magneto-structural tran...3.2 billion-year-old surprise: Earth had strong magnetic field
...r that is shielded from magnetic interference. The magnetism is essentially drained from the particles in the r...ys ultra-sensitive SQUID he could measure how much magnetism these individual particles contained. The data suggest that the ancient magnetic field strength was ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...he backscattering spectrometer and the liquids and magnetism reflectometers--are already receiving neutrons. In some configurations, the reflectometers are receiving neutron beams intense enough to saturate the detectors, even operating at 2 percent of the SNS's eventual 1.4 megawatts of power. All in all, the...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...ical solid state physics, especially the theory of magnetism in low-dimensional systems and in nanostructures. His microscopic explanation of special exchange interactions in ferromagnetic layered systems (interlayer exchange coupling) is already a staple of modern textbooks on solid state physics. Bruno an...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 23, 2006
...ron's angular momentum, a property associated with magnetism and classified as "spin up" or "spin down." Jacoby describes the innovations that spintronics promises, from the near-term to that futuristic quantum computer, which would encode data as multiple quantum states in addition to the "1s" and "0s" of tra...Materials scientists get the whole picture with new e-Science technique
... within materials, which govern properties such as magnetism or high temperature superconductivity. Dr Perring works with one of 19 ISIS instruments, MAPS, to study the motions of magnetic moments and atoms within materials. MAPS detectors take 30 minutes to two days to generate 10 million bits of data from on...Incubator company at NJIT develops lifesaving MRI coil for small animals
...s depicting a section of the human body. MRIs use magnetism and radio waves to create the images. In 1983, the FDA approved MRI scanners for sale in the US, which launched the commercial MRI market. Today more than 22,000 MRI systems operate worldwide. MRIs are categorized according to the strength of the m...