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Magnetic Twists Cancel Each Other Out Under the Electron Microscope
Mon, 01/25/2021 - 4:58pmAn international collaboration between physicists, chemists, and materials scientists at Louisiana State University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Oak Ridge National Lab, and the Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany, have observed for the first time the annihilation of magnetic twists in a hexagonal chiral crystal. The team used advanced imaging methods and simulations to image and model pairs of chiral twists in the novel crystal, which when subjected to an external magnetic field move asymmetrically. These findings are important because they demonstrate a new way to control nanoscopic magnetic objects, which are highly promising for new data storage devices. Please see the published paper here.