iFOCUS Science Colloquium Lecture Series

Title

Imaging Magnets at the Nanoscale with Sculpted Electrons

Streaming Media

Document Type

Video File

Duration

1 hour 0 minutes 42 seconds

Publication Date

4-30-2015

Disciplines

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | Condensed Matter Physics | Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory | Quantum Physics

Abstract

Exactly what are magnets? How can a nail be turned into a magnet by applying another magnet? It turns out the answer to these questions plays a role in today's technologies—computers and the Internet—as well as tomorrow's. In this talk, Ben McMorran discusses how these questions can be answered by looking at magnets at nanometer length scales. He also discusses how various magnetic microscopes work, the role that electron angular momentum plays in magnetic material, and efforts to manipulate this angular momentum using "sculpted" electrons.

Comments

Sponsored by the Hearst Foundations and the Linfield College Physics Department.

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