First Soft X-rays Explore Ultrafast Magnetic Behaviors
Monday, July 19, 2010 - 16:56
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first user experiments on the Soft X-ray instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source wrapped up last week. Research led by Andreas Scherz, a physicist at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, and Jan Lüning from the University Pierre and Marie Curie in France looked to explain on the nanoscale how magnetic fields switch between "up" and "down" states -- a key process used to store data in computers.