Scientists are using vibrating nanoscale drumheads to study how magnetism moves and changes inside special materials — a discovery that could help power the next generation of fast, energy-efficient computers.
A team of physicists and engineers has discovered a new way to eavesdrop on some of the most elusive and subtle magnetic phenomena in nature — using membranes so thin and sensitive they can hear what no traditional probes could see or sense.
In a study funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional team of researchers led by Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor in Physics at the University of Florida, in collaboration with Philip Feng, Ph.D., Wally Rhines Endowed Professor for Quantum Engineering in UF’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, created tiny, ultra-thin drum-like membranes made from a special magnetic material called manganese phosphorus trisulfide.
Dr. Enamul Yousuf, postdoctoral scholar in ECE, and Yunong Wang, Ph.D. student in ECE, are the first authors of this article.
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