Everspin makes a type called MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory), which uses magnetic properties to store data.
The magnetic properties of materials hold the key to major advances in technology.
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Professor Stephen Rand and his associate, William Fisher, have discovered that, at the proper intensity, the magnetic properties of light could potentially be harnessed to generate voltage.
These discoveries have given birth to a field of endeavour that is known as spintronics, because the magnetic properties of a material depend on a quantum-mechanical property of electrons called spin.
They moved often, living near Byron Bay, a beachfront community in New South Wales, and on Magnetic Island, a tiny pile of rock that Captain Cook believed had magnetic properties that distorted his compass readings.
Such manufacturability implies that repeated fabrication of artefacts is possible to produce electronic, optical, magnetic or other properties with a high and highly reproducible yield within a tight tolerance of a pre-specified performance.
Maglev technology has been around for years as the propulsion method behind certain European and Asian trains, and basically involves using the Physics 101 properties of magnetic attraction and repulsion to provide an object with momentum.
Most usefully, the ability to make stuff with atomic precision will allow scientists to produce materials with improved, or new, optical, magnetic, thermal or electrical properties.
That meant recruiting two clever instruments with long-winded names a differential scanning calorimeter, which measures the thermal properties of the mixture as it is sorted, and a nuclear-magnetic resonance spectrometer, which measures its chemical properties.
Its optical properties might be modified by merely applying a magnetic field.
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