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Magnetic spin breakthrough to boost data storage
 
IBM researchers have used scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) techniques to manipulate individual iron atoms and arrange them with atomic precision on a specially prepared copper surface. They then determined the orientation and strength of the magnetic anisotropy of the individual iron atoms.
Tuesday 4 September, 2007 01:28 PM
 
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