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28 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 8, 2026.
Squeezing tiny crystals of manganese telluride and iron sulfide between titanium plates shifted their magnetic domains and electrical behavior, a possible lever for future spintronic chips.
SLAC-led physicists found a handedness signature in manganese telluride that conventional antiferromagnets lack, a result that could help build faster, lower-power electronics.
Spanish-led researchers pulled hidden magnetic information out of a material with no net magnetization and read it as an electrical signal, confirming a prediction made years ago.
Kyushu University researchers found that a 0.3-nanometer film, thinner than one continuous atomic layer, gave the strongest response. The finding could help devices that turn waste heat into electricity.
The ACS Nano prediction for MnBi₂Te₄ points to ultrafast switching without the heat of electrical circuits, but no experiment has tested it yet.
Photoemission measurements of iron-doped niobium disulfide explain why the material's resistance switches with low current, a property prized for low-power spintronic memory.
Neutron scattering at Rice University shows manganese spins in YbMnBi2 line up in a preferred direction without forming magnetism, a 'spin nematic' state that appears near room temperature.
The signature of a recently recognized form of magnetism in Co₁/₄TaSe₂ could point toward faster, more efficient spintronic electronics.
Neither long-range magnetic order nor ferroelectric order survives easily in a sheet a few atoms thick, and getting both to coexist at 19°C was thought to be extraordinarily hard. Cheng Gong's team did it by building each order in its own layer and pressing the layers together.
Physicists in Shanghai calculated that spin-orbit coupling — long treated as a fixed property of a material's atoms — weakens as temperature rises, closing the band inversion that makes topological states possible.
A NIMS and University of Tokyo team coated yttrium iron garnet powder with platinum and pressed it into bulk, scattering nanoscale interfaces throughout the material. Thickness no longer caps the output.
No external magnets, no magnetic materials — just a germanium metasurface and a well-timed laser pulse that changes the rules while the light is still inside.
Physicists at TU Dortmund built self-oscillating spin systems inside a semiconductor chip and found that distant ones synchronize, holding the rhythm for hours.
Time-resolved X-ray microscopy at BESSY II caught antiferromagnetic skyrmions tracking an applied current exactly — and rebounding off each other when they collided.
Researchers switched the chirality of phonons inside a ferroelectric crystal with an electric field, then watched the electron spins flip along with them — an electrical control knob for spin that spintronics has been missing.
By cooling ultra-pure crystals to a whisker above absolute zero, a Vienna-led team kept magnons alive for 18 microseconds — long enough, they say, to carry quantum information the way today's best qubits do.
University of Vienna researchers kept magnons alive for 18 microseconds — long enough to carry quantum information — by chilling ultrapure crystals to a whisker above absolute zero.
Researchers led by the University of Vienna kept 'magnons' alive for 18 microseconds — long enough to carry quantum information — and found the only real limit is how pure the crystal is.
Spin-resolved measurements at Germany's BESSY II revealed a dense network of topologically protected electronic states in plain cobalt metal, opening a possible route to faster, magnetically controlled spintronic devices.
Dresden team finds gentle magnetic wave stimulation can trigger previously unseen oscillation patterns in tiny magnetic structures, challenging fundamental physics assumptions.
Researchers found that gentle magnetic wave stimulation can generate exotic Floquet states in tiny magnetic structures, challenging existing physics assumptions.
Researchers trigger exotic Floquet oscillations using minimal energy in magnetic vortices, challenging existing physics assumptions and potentially linking different quantum technologies.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have filmed in unprecedented slow-motion detail the moment electron spins flip inside an antiferromagnet, revealing two switching mechanisms that could power next-generation ultra-fast, low-energy memory chips.
A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shown that the standard explanation for a key magnetic phenomenon used to design memory and sensor devices for twenty years was fundamentally incorrect.
A niobium-rhenium alloy identified at NTNU can carry both electrical and spin current with zero resistance, a breakthrough theorists have been predicting for fifteen years and that could reshape quantum computing hardware.
Physicists at ETH Zurich and the University of Basel published in Nature the first demonstration of all-optical, room-temperature control of a ferromagnet's magnetic orientation, using twisted layers of molybdenum ditelluride and a focused laser beam to switch collective electron spin states permanently.
Professor Ryo Shimano's team used ultrafast laser pulses to capture frame-by-frame footage of magnetic switching in manganese-tin — a material that had been almost entirely invisible to physicists — and discovered a heat-free switching pathway that could enable magnetic memory and logic ten times faster than today's best MRAM chips.
Ryo Shimano's team at the University of Tokyo used ultrafast laser pulses to capture the fastest magnetic movie ever recorded inside manganese-tin, revealing a non-thermal spin-switching mechanism that is far more energy efficient than previously known and could enable terahertz-speed spintronic computers.