Discovery of a new magnetic order
Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 12:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicists at Forschungszentrum Jülich and the universities of Kiel and Hamburg are the first to discover a regular lattice of stable magnetic skyrmions radial spiral structures made up of atomic-scale spins on a surface instead of in bulk materials. Such tiny formations could one day form the basis of a new generation of smaller and more efficient data storage units in the field of information technology.