UC San Diego engineers showed that carefully shaped ultrafast laser beams can reverse magnetization in platinum-cobalt ...

For decades, magnetic data storage has depended on the general idea of using a ...

A new approach that uses light to switch the magnetic states of a material could lead to faster, smaller and more ...

A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals in common metals like copper, gold, and aluminum—using nothing more than light and a clever technique. Their ...

Scientists have used light to visualize magnetic domains, and manipulated these regions using an electric field, in a quantum antiferromagnet. This method allows real-time observation of magnetic ...

A layered magnetic semiconductor called CrSBr converted microwave-driven magnetic excitations into coherent optical signals ...

Physicists at The City College of New York have demonstrated a new way to transfer microwave signals onto light using magnetic waves inside a layered semiconductor. The work establishes a materials ...

Imagine shining a flashlight into a material and watching the light bend backward—or in an entirely unexpected direction—as if defying the law of physics. This phenomenon, known as negative refraction ...

AM, a display glowing pale blue in a dark room, the sound of a keyboard clacking away. After staring at terminals, editors, ...

A 'magnet' where the North and South poles are always a set. No matter how small you cut it, both always appear, and it is a fundamental rule of physics that magnets with 'only an N pole' or 'only an ...