To magnetize an iron nail, one simply has to stroke its surface several times with a bar magnet. Yet, there is a much more unusual method: A team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) ...

The field of ultrafast magnetism explores how flashes of light can manipulate a material's magnetization in trillionths of a second. In the process called all-optical switching (AOS), a single laser ...

The reliability of data storage and writing speed in advanced magnetic devices depend on drastic, complex changes in microscopic magnetic domain structures. However, it is extremely challenging to ...

This process is repeated several times, whereby the time interval between the first "pump" pulse and the subsequent "probe" pulse is continually extended. As a result, a time series of reflection data ...

A single ultrashort laser pulse can change the magnetization of a suitable material. But even within a magnetic film of just a few nanometer ...

In a recent breakthrough, researchers from Japan discovered a unique Hall effect resulting from deflection of electrons due ...

Typically, the charge of electrons is used to store and process information in electronics-based devices. In spintronics, the ...