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New Approach and 3-D Silicon Hall Microsensor to Measure Magnetic Field

Recently designed 3-D Hall magnetic-field silicon devices suffer from essential drawbacks.

1 Jun 2010

How Fast Magnetic Particles Can Be Controlled

Christian Stamm and his colleagues at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Mate-rialien und Energie (HZB) can look back on six years of pioneering work at the synchrotron BESSY II.

26 May 2010

Theoretical Discovery of a Method of Using Magnetic Materials to Control Macroscopic States of Superconducting Devices

Shiro Kawabata of Nanomaterials Theory Group, the Nanotechnology Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and his colleagues have discovered, from simulations of Josephso...

21 May 2010

Nanotechnology Professor Awarded the 2010 Holweck Prize + Medal

Professor Steve Bramwell of the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won the 2010 Holweck Medal and Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in European Physics. The Holweck prize is awarded jointly by the French and British Physical Societies.

18 May 2010

New Images Provide Hints to Superconductivity in Pnictides

New images of iron-based superconductors are providing telltale clues to the origin of superconductivity in a class of ceramic materials known as pnictides.

18 May 2010

Defects and Diffusion in Ceramics XI Volume Includes Research Paper on Nano-Magnetic Fluid

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9778fd/defects_and_diffus) has announced the addition of the "Defects and Diffusion in Ceramics XI" report to their offering. Series: Defect ...

15 May 2010

The "Hall" Mark of a Quantum Magnet

An important model to explain high-temperature superconductivity is the so-called 'quantum spin liquid'. Scientists are therefore interested in understanding the low-energy excitations of this magnetic state. Now...

13 May 2010

Researchers Develop Superparamagnetic Gold Nanoshells

A solution-phase process has been developed by CNM users from the University of California at Riverside, working collaboratively with the Nanophotonics Group at the Argonne National Laboratory, for synthesizing stable multifunctional colloidal particles composed of a superparamagnetic Fe3O4 core, a gold nanoshell, and a mesoporous silica outer layer.

From Argonne National Laboratory 12 May 2010

Nanotechnology Researcher Awarded 2010 Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize

Dr Christian Ruegg of the LCN was awarded the 2010 Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize for his pioneering work on quantum phase transitions and novel phases in magnetic materials. With this prestigious prize Oxford Instruments recognizes outstanding research by a young scientist using high magnetic fields and low temperatures.

10 May 2010

New Spintronics Finding can Lead to Further Development of Nanoscale Magnetic Storage Devices

Though scientists argue that the emerging technology of spintronics may trump conventional electronics for building the next generation of faster, smaller, more efficient computers and high-tech devices, no one has actually seen the spin—a quantum mechanical property of electrons—in individual atoms until now.

27 Apr 2010