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Engineers use tiny light beam to rewrite magnetic memory at high speed

For decades, magnetic data storage has depended on the general idea of using a ...

The Secret to Better Magnetic Memory May Be the Light, Not the Material

Using a specially engineered beam of light from an ultrafast laser, UC San Diego engineers demonstrate a new approach to ...
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A new bridge for quantum networks: Physicists convert microwaves to light using 2D magnets

Physicists at The City College of New York have demonstrated a new way to transfer microwave signals onto light using magnetic waves inside a layered semiconductor. The work establishes a materials ...
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New three‑dimensional magnetic structure discovered with laser light

Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic structures for the first time. By using light as a remote control, ...

Scientists reshape light to control magnetic memory and a material's magnetic properties

UC San Diego engineers showed that carefully shaped ultrafast laser beams can reverse magnetization in platinum-cobalt ...