An international team of researchers including physicists here in Durham have made a breakthrough that could help make our phones and computers faster and more energy efficient.
An international team of researchers including physicists here in Durham have made a breakthrough that could help make our phones and computers faster and more energy efficient.
The physicists have for the first time detected magnons at the nanometre scale, magnetic spin waves that travel through a material without carrying any conventional electrical current. Magnons can be used to encode and carry data faster than the electrical signals currently used in personal electronic devices.
Mapping the Magnons
The research was led by the University of York, UK, the SuperSTEM laboratory in Daresbury, UK, the University of Uppsala, in Sweden and also involved Durham, and the University of Washington, USA.
The breakthrough was to utilise a high energy and spatial resolution electron microscope to directly detect and map the magnons spectroscopically, within a nickel oxide crystal with extreme precision.
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