This could change the game.
  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    For anyone interested in what they could be used for, but without time to read the article,

    On a nano level, everything we store inside our devices is the result of the coordinated action of electrons. If these materials could be improved, it could mean higher efficiency, more storage within the same size of material, and less loss when data is accessed.

    Because

    …in [this] paper, scientists show that they can tune these materials very precicely in order to create specific directions of magnetism.

    While the traditional ferromagnets we use today are fine in many ways, they aren’t ideal, and can introduce a blurring between separated bits of data known as crosstalk.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      2 months ago

      apparently it’s one of those “technically correct but also obviously nonsense” things: there’s no different type of electromagnetism, but specific materials can be magnetic in different ways, dimagnetic/ferromagnetic/paramagnetic, and the stuff the article is about seems to be at least the fourth kind… urgh

  • Mojave@lemmy.world
    48·
    2 months ago

    Real question:

    This article has been SPAMMED over Lemmy for the past week, what made you post it 8 days after it was made?

    That’s essentially old news on a platform that moves as fast as this

    • Universal Monk@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      Sorry, it was my first time seeing it. And when I posted it to this community, I didn’t get an alert that it’s already been posted. So I posted.

      I sorta go on a science binge every few weeks. So I just read a bunch and post what is interesting. But I don’t follow it every day. Hence me replying to you after 18 days. Thanks!