Imaging with neutrons: Magnetic domains shown for the first time in 3-D

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 12:10 in Physics & Chemistry

Every magnetic material is divided into such magnetic domains. Scientists call them 'Weiss domains' after physicist Pierre-Ernest Weiss, who predicted their existence theoretically more than a hundred years ago. In 1907, he recognised that the magnetic moments of atoms within a bounded domain are equally aligned...

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