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IBM develop a window into our atomic heart

"We have developed a window into the atomic heart of magnetism," said Andreas Heinrich, research staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, in a statement. "We can now position atoms and then measure and control their magnetic interactions within precisely designed structures."

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Wow! That's so exciting. Spin-excitation spectroscopy to be exact.

This technique could help design next-generation of digital storage elements.

Read more about it here.

Posted by Lodestone on April 7, 2006 08:48 AM |

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