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A New Twist on Controlling Magnetic Properties

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Computer storage devices often use magnetic materials printed on very thin films. In this study, researchers rotated cobalt-iron alloy thin films relative to an applied magnetic field. Unexpectedly, depending on the rotation angle, a sizeable change - up to 400% - was seen in how well the material holds on to energy.

Accelerating the Development of Nuclear Fusion

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers from TAE Technologies used the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to support their fusion research. The company is working to develop the world's first fusion device that can generate electricity and is commercially viable.

Argonne's Mira supercomputer set to retire after years of enabling groundbreaking science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Mira, the 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer first booted up at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in 2012, will be decommissioned at the end of this year. Its work has spanned seven-plus years and delivered 39.6 billion core-hours to more than 800 projects, solving nearly intractable problems in scientific fields ranging from pharmacology to astrophysics.

Playing the angles with dramatic effect

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers report the most complete model to date concerning the transition from metal to insulator in correlated oxides. These oxides have fascinated scientists because of their many attractive electronic and magnetic properties.

Journal: Nature

Advancing information processing with exceptional points and surfaces

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have for the first time detected an exceptional surface based on measurements of exceptional points. These points are modes that exhibit phenomenon with possible practical applications in information processing.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Super Nanoparticle Superlattices

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

This new research shows how the ligands affect key structural and mechanical properties of the superlattices.

Ultrafast X-ray Optics

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists have demonstrated a new micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) resonator. By using this device with a hard (higher energy) X-ray, scientists can now control how long the X-ray pulses are, down to 300 picoseconds long.

Antonino Miceli: Then and now

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Antonino Miceli is the group leader of the Detectors Group in the X-ray Science Division of the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, a senior fellow at the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, and a senior scientist at the University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering.

Argonne-led team wins technology challenge at SC19

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

An extensive collaboration led by Argonne recently won the Inaugural SCinet Technology Challenge at the Supercomputing 19 conference by demonstrating real-time analysis of light source data from Argonne's APS to the ALCF.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Basic Energy Sciences Programs

Scientists harvest energy from light using bio-inspired artificial cells

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

By replicating biological machinery with non-biological components, scientists have created artificial cells that convert light into chemical energy.