Working at nanoscale dimensions, a team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials.

The field of ultrafast magnetism explores how flashes of light can manipulate a material's magnetization in trillionths of a ...

Researchers at the Institute of Photonic Integration of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have developed a hybrid technology featuring the advantages of both optical and magnetic hard ...

Ultrafast magnetic switching and optical control represent a transformative paradigm in the manipulation of magnetic states using light. This field leverages ultrashort laser pulses—often in the ...

Better magnetic storage devices for computers and other electronics could result from new work by researchers in the United States and Germany. Their findings demonstrate that chirality -- a ...

A strong, short light pulse can record data on a magnetic layer of yttrium iron garnet doped with cobalt-ions. This novel optical storage mechanism – which the developers say could one day become a ...

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges to today's computer technology. Conventional silicon ...

Magnetic (anti)skyrmions are microscopically small whirls that are found in special classes of magnetic materials. They could be used to host digital data. A team of scientists has now made the ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, light-induced thermomagnetic recording in a magnetic thin-film on silicon waveguides. The new writing technique is poised to enable ...