Scientists have developed a method to determine the maximum possible magnetic
anisotropy for a single cobalt atom.
The team of Harald Brune at EPFL, working with scientists at the ETH Zurich, Paul Scherrer Institute, and IBM Almaden Research Center, have developed a method to determine the maximum possible magnetic
anisotropy for a single cobalt atom.
Not exact matches
For the past few years, a NASA spacecraft called the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, has been studying the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is a relic of the Big Bang.
Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions
for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.
Echo of the Big Bang Michael D. Lemonick Princeton University Press, $ 24.95 Lemonick, a science writer
for Time, traces the creation of the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which measures microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang.
For half a century, the Mermin - Wagner theorem has addressed this question by stating that if 2 - D materials lack magnetic
anisotropy, a directional alignment of electron spins in the material, there may be no magnetic order.
The spacecraft — recently renamed the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe in honor of astrophysicist David Wilkinson — is sifting
for clues in the cosmic microwave background, a remnant glow of microwaves from the early universe.
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For the first time, we really exclude
anisotropy,» Saadeh says.
To search
for such features, the researchers devised a computer algorithm that analyzed CMB data recorded by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe.
The team calculated the likely temperature profiles
for such impacts and searched
for them in CMB data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe.
«Senator Mikulski knows that science and technology grow our economy and contribute to our national security,» says Charles Bennett, principal investigator
for the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe, a NASA Explorer mission that produced an image of the oldest light in the universe.
Just three of these significant differences — radial diffusivity in the right forceps minor, cortical thickness in the left pars opercularis and fractional
anisotropy in the left forceps minor — yielded the best decision tree
for distinguishing ASD participants from controls.
• Reduced white matter connectivity (as measured by reduced fractional
anisotropy and increased radial diffusivity)
for two discrete clusters on the forceps minor of the corpus callosum; and
The experiments showed the maximum magnetic
anisotropy energy of a single atom (~ 60 millielectron volts) and the longest spin lifetime
for a single transition metal atom.
Publishing in Science, researchers led by EPFL combine various experimental and computational methods to measure
for the first time the energy needed to change the magnetic
anisotropy of a single Cobalt atom.
Resume: Nanoparticles featuring a high magnetic
anisotropy are strongly desired
for applications related to spintronics such as mass storage media or magneto resistive sensors.
The opening ceremony of AMiBA (Array
for Microwave Background
Anisotropy) was held at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
Drever has carried out experiments in a number of areas of physics, including spectroscopic measurements to look
for anisotropy of mass and space - his null results providing accurate confirmations of both special and general relativity.
For magnetic recording and storage devices, researchers are particularly interested in magnetic
anisotropy, or what direction magnetism favors in an atom.
Frey et al (2012) established a novel approach
for fiber tracking based on navigated TMS mapping of the primary motor cortex and proposed a new algorithm
for determination of an individualized fractional
anisotropy value
for reliable and objective fiber tracking.
A fractional
anisotropy threshold
for cortico - spinal tract reconstruction could be obtained in every case.
A search
for anisotropy in the arrival directions of ultra high energy cosmic rays recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory
REU participants will conduct original research via specially designed student projects within three main foci: 1) Microgel and Hydrogel Nanoparticles: Designing environmentally sensitive nanoparticles
for a variety of applications and fundamental studies of volume phase transitions; 2) Anisotropic Soft Matter Thin Films: Driving self - assembly of soft matter to develop thin films with unique properties tied to the shape
anisotropy of the materials; and 3) Soft Matter Fluid Flow: Striving to better understand and to improve mixing in liquid soft matter systems and use liquid flow to test and understand biological phenomena.
Follows that the
anisotropy and non homogeneity at large scales don't matter
for what happens at dissipation scales.