New magnetic material discovered
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New magnetic material could boost electronics[^]
The material combines thin layers of nickel and vanadium oxide, creating a structure which is surpisingly responsive to heat. "We can control the magnetism in just a narrow range of temperature - without applying a magnetic field. And in principle we could also control it with voltage or current," said Prof Schuller. "At low temperatures, the oxide is an insulator. At high temperatures it's a metal. And in between it becomes this strange material," he said. Although it's too early to say exactly how it will be used, Prof Schuller sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
The article notes the last time a discovery like this was made, giant magnetoresistance[^] or GMR in 1988. GMR is the technology that allows hard drives to be so small and dense. If this new tech has a similar impact... :omg:
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New magnetic material could boost electronics[^]
The material combines thin layers of nickel and vanadium oxide, creating a structure which is surpisingly responsive to heat. "We can control the magnetism in just a narrow range of temperature - without applying a magnetic field. And in principle we could also control it with voltage or current," said Prof Schuller. "At low temperatures, the oxide is an insulator. At high temperatures it's a metal. And in between it becomes this strange material," he said. Although it's too early to say exactly how it will be used, Prof Schuller sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
The article notes the last time a discovery like this was made, giant magnetoresistance[^] or GMR in 1988. GMR is the technology that allows hard drives to be so small and dense. If this new tech has a similar impact... :omg:
Gregory.Gadow wrote:
sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
Long gone are the days when somebody discovers something and actually builds something useful, demonstrating its usefulness, rather than making conjecture to garnish brief media coverage. Science has devolved into "we see opportunities!" Venture capitalists probably love that stuff, but probably the smart ones don't. Anyways, I ramble. I notice that when my cat eats his food, it leaves distinct patterns of crumbs in the bowl. I see obvious opportunities in applying prediction theory of cat crunchy crumbs with quantum crumbodynamics to predict when my cat will be hungry next. Send me money to research this further, as I want to create a "smart bowl" to alert me on my phone when my cat is hungry. I think I'll head over to Kickstarter to submit my video of my cat eating. Marc
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Gregory.Gadow wrote:
sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
Long gone are the days when somebody discovers something and actually builds something useful, demonstrating its usefulness, rather than making conjecture to garnish brief media coverage. Science has devolved into "we see opportunities!" Venture capitalists probably love that stuff, but probably the smart ones don't. Anyways, I ramble. I notice that when my cat eats his food, it leaves distinct patterns of crumbs in the bowl. I see obvious opportunities in applying prediction theory of cat crunchy crumbs with quantum crumbodynamics to predict when my cat will be hungry next. Send me money to research this further, as I want to create a "smart bowl" to alert me on my phone when my cat is hungry. I think I'll head over to Kickstarter to submit my video of my cat eating. Marc
When they discovered how to make buckyballs there was no immediate gain, but now look at the nanotechnology.
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote:
sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
Long gone are the days when somebody discovers something and actually builds something useful, demonstrating its usefulness, rather than making conjecture to garnish brief media coverage. Science has devolved into "we see opportunities!" Venture capitalists probably love that stuff, but probably the smart ones don't. Anyways, I ramble. I notice that when my cat eats his food, it leaves distinct patterns of crumbs in the bowl. I see obvious opportunities in applying prediction theory of cat crunchy crumbs with quantum crumbodynamics to predict when my cat will be hungry next. Send me money to research this further, as I want to create a "smart bowl" to alert me on my phone when my cat is hungry. I think I'll head over to Kickstarter to submit my video of my cat eating. Marc
You better hurry and patent it Marc before one of the big boys jump on it. :)
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Gregory.Gadow wrote:
sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
Long gone are the days when somebody discovers something and actually builds something useful, demonstrating its usefulness, rather than making conjecture to garnish brief media coverage. Science has devolved into "we see opportunities!" Venture capitalists probably love that stuff, but probably the smart ones don't. Anyways, I ramble. I notice that when my cat eats his food, it leaves distinct patterns of crumbs in the bowl. I see obvious opportunities in applying prediction theory of cat crunchy crumbs with quantum crumbodynamics to predict when my cat will be hungry next. Send me money to research this further, as I want to create a "smart bowl" to alert me on my phone when my cat is hungry. I think I'll head over to Kickstarter to submit my video of my cat eating. Marc
Professor Schrödinger has prior art on this (or does he?)
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When they discovered how to make buckyballs there was no immediate gain, but now look at the nanotechnology.
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Dalek Dave wrote:
When they discovered how to make buckyballs there was no immediate gain, but now look at the nanotechnology.
Actually is this not a great example of what Marc is talking about? I do believe there is future use in it but is there anything that we have actually made to date using the technology in real life situations? Maybe there is but I am unaware, but most of the articles I have read are "Oh and we can do XYZ and yadda yadda"... Well do it. I still have yet to see anything resulting that effects my day to day life. Well at least that I know of. Maybe it has integrated and I am simply oblivious. Have any actual examples?
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
