Materials - Magnetism Does the Twist (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Materials - Magnetism Does the Twist

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The layering of crystals into a superlattice yields a nanoscale magnetic structure of twisting, swirling spin orientations, shown from red to blue, that deflect electrons, shown as white dots.

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Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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