Beyond the High-Speed Hard Drive: Topological Insulators Open a Path to...
Berkeley Lab theorists and experimenters have led in the exploration of the unique properties of topological insulators, where electrons may flow on the surface without resistance and with their spin...
View ArticleAnother Advance on the Road to Spintronics
Using a new technique called HARPES, for Hard x-ray Angle-Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy, Berkeley Lab researchers have unlocked the ferromagnetic secrets of dilute magnetic semiconductors,...
View ArticleNew Insight into an Intriguing State of Magnetism
Magnonics is an exciting extension of spintronics, promising novel ways of computing and storing magnetic data. What determines a material’s magnetic state is how electron spins are arranged (not...
View ArticleWhirlpools on the Nanoscale Could Multiply Magnetic Memory
Research at the Advanced Light Source promises four-bit magnetic cells instead of the two-bit magnetic domains of standard magnetic memories. Magnetic vortices are whirlpools of magnetic field, in...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab Researchers Increase NMR/MRI Sensitivity through...
Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated the first magnetically-controlled nearly complete hyperpolarization of the spins of carbon-13 nuclei located near synthetic defects in diamond crystals. This...
View ArticleA Deeper Look at Interfaces: Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light...
Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source have developed a technique that makes it possible for the first time to selectively study the electronic structure of buried interfaces in multilayer...
View ArticleNatural 3D Counterpart to Graphene Discovered
A natural 3D counterpart to 2D graphene with similar or even better electron mobility and velocity has been discovered at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. This discovery promises exciting new...
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Advanced Light Source Provides New Look at Skyrmions: Results Hold Promise...
Advanced Light Source images of a Cu2SeO3 sample show five sets of dual-peak skyrmion structures, highlighted by the white ovals. The dual peaks represent the two skyrmion sub-lattices that rotate with...
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On the Road to Spin-orbitronics
These schematics of magnetic domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized thin films show (a) left-handed and (b) right-handed Neel-type walls; and (c) left-handed and (d) right-handed Bloch-type walls....
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Exciting Breakthrough in 2D Lasers
In the whispering gallery mode of a 2D excitonic laser made from a monolayer of tungsten disulfide and a microdisk resonator, the electric field at the edges of the resonator helps promote a high Q...
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