Researchers from Mainz University demonstrate a new
principle for magnetic recording / Publication in Nature Nanotechnology
The research group of Professor Jairo Sinova at the
Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), in
collaboration with researchers from Prague, Cambridge, and Nottingham, have
predicted and discovered a new physical phenomenon that allows to manipulate
the state of a magnet by electric signals. Current technologies for writing,
storing, and reading information are either charge-based or spin-based.
Semiconductor flash or random access memories are prime examples among the
large variety of charge-based devices. They utilize the possibility offered by
semiconductors to easily electrically manipulate and detect their electronic
charge states representing the "zeros" and "ones".