Browse Physics

Nanoscale engineering of multiferroic thin films enables electric control of a device’s interface magnetism, thus offering a promising prospective for ultralow power spintronics.

Magnetic interactions between atoms contribute to sliding friction.

Silicon nanowire sensors offer a route to improving the sensitivity and spatial resolution of magnetic resonance force microscopy.

A two-dimensional trap takes advantage of the magnetic domain walls in a narrow wire to guide the thermal motion of magnetic particles.

A new compound is found to be the best yet fully organic realization of a one-dimensional ferromagnet.

A robust measurement scheme indicates that a spin-related torque that speeds up moving domain walls in magnetic nanostructures is larger than previously estimated.

First-principles calculations explore how magnetic interactions impede the formation of atomically thin wires.

A microscopic study of magnetic nanoislands on a surface challenges the widely held view that all atoms in a relaxing nanoparticle flip their spins in unison.

An advance in magnetic resonance force microscopy enhances its chemical sensitivity and opens up the possibility of identifying different organic substances at the nanoscale.

Most applications based on magnetism are incompatible with domain walls, which interrupt a homogeneous magnetization. Scientists are turning this view around as they discover new ways to use an electric current to manipulate and store information in nanoscale domain walls.

Bombardment by protons can turn ordinary graphite into an unusually simple artificial magnet.