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Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Laser pulses could speed memory Researchers from the Research Institute for Materials in the Netherlands and Siemens AG in Germany have found a way to switch a magnetic bit more quickly. The potential payoff is faster computer memory.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Material helps bits beat heat Researchers have discovered a way to shore up magnetic energy that promises bits only a few nanometers across -- the span of a few dozen hydrogen atoms. The method could make it possible to store more than a trillion bits per square inch, according to the researchers.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	Magnetic Logic Becomes Practical Researchers from Stanford University have improved a way to program magnetic random access memory (MRAM) to carry out computations.
CIO July 15, 2003 John Edwards	Sensitive Sensors Get those gigs. The State University of New York at Buffalo's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has developed sensors that could boost hard drive capacity by a factor of 1,000 -- without also driving up price.
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Bedair et al.	Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage
Technology Research News July 13, 2005	Magnetics Drives Particle Patterns Researchers have devised a way to use electric and magnetic fields to assemble magnetic microparticles into a wide variety of patterns, including clusters, rings, chains and networks.
Chemistry World February 18, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Nanomaterials Blossom US researchers have found a new way to use magnetic fields to encourage nanoparticles to self-assemble into unique shapes.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Eric Smalley	Magnetic memory makes logic Magnetic memory will soon put an end to the daily annoyance of waiting while your computer boots up from its hard disk. These chips that hold data when the power is off might also be capable of a lot more. Adding a few extra wires to each memory cell could turn the chips into efficient computer processors.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 Eric Smalley	Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter.
Technology Research News June 29, 2005	Micro marbles make nano rings Using chemical methods, researchers have found a cheaper way to make nanoscale rings. The rings can then be used to make materials to bend light.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Rubber stamp writes data Scientists from IBM's Almaden research center have found a way to quickly transfer information from a magnetic mask to a magnetic disk. The method promises to make it considerably quicker to format and copy magnetic media in bulk.
InternetNews October 29, 2009	Intel, Numonyx Invent the Memory Club Sandwich New means of stacking layers will allow for more memory density.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Shape key to strong sensors Researchers have found a possible explanation for why a pair of semiconducting compounds -- mixes of silver and selenium or tellurium -- are strong magnetic sensors over a wide range of magnetic field strengths.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	See-through magnets hang tough Researchers from the Independent University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Zaragoza in Spain have found a way to form transparent, durable, lightweight magnets that maintain their magnetism in magnetic fields and high temperatures.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano Researchers have built a nuclear magnetic resonance device that has the potential to overcome the quantum bit limit because it is small enough to fit on a computer chip.
CIO December 15, 2003 Christopher Lindquist	Upright Data Storage The engineers charged with finding ever more clever ways to stuff extra bits into a given square inch of magnetic platter are beginning to encounter the physical limits of current techniques. New advances in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology, however, may continue the density trend.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Electricity loosens tiny bits Researchers have found a way to make flipping small bits easier. The electrically-assisted magnetization reversal process weakens the magnetization of a ferromagnetic semiconductor's magnetization by applying a pinpoint electric field, making the magnetization of individual bits easier to flip.
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility.
PC Magazine August 16, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n15 Seagate is demonstrating Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2010 Balachander Suriyanarayanan	IBM's "Racetrack" Closer to Starting Its Engine A memory technology that could enable a handheld device like an MP3 player to store about 3,500 movies or 500,000 songs is a step closer to commercial viability, researchers at IBM say.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2009 Anders Bylund	Profitable Poetry In Silicon Motion Net profits and strong new sub-markets add up to a bright future for the computer memory market in Taiwan.
PC Magazine June 21, 2006	Data Cram IBM researchers set new world record by storing 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch of magnetic tape.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives.
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Popular Mechanics January 2010 Tyghe Trimble	3 Next-Gen Fixes to the Coming Hard-Drive Crisis Hard drives could reach their limits by 2015 unless researchers can find new ways to cram more information onto their disks.
Technology Research News March 12, 2003	Supersensitive disk drives on tap Being able to move electrons from one place to another more efficiently translates to more sensitive electronics that can read information packed more closely on disk drives. New research paves the way for storage devices that hold several thousand gigabits per square inch. Today's hold 50.
Chemistry World July 19, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Magnetic Sponge Can Squeeze Itself Out Researchers in Japan and Singapore have created a sponge that can wring itself out upon application of a magnetic field.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004	Magnets Align Nanotubes in Resin Carbon nanotubes have great potential as components of new materials but aligning the tiny tubes can be tricky. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University have developed a way to orient the nanotubes in a polymer mix using a magnetic field.
InternetNews January 9, 2008	Hynix Sees DRAM Rebound Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest memory maker, predicts a comeback for the computer-chip market as demand remains strong.
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Mike Allen	Radio Frequency Car Keys Not Perfect: Car Care Tip Drivers: Slim down your key rings.
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PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Terabits In The Vortex Consider a hard drive that can store thousands of movies per square inch. Is it possible?
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Charles Q. Choi	Nanomagnets to the Rescue If, as seems possible, magnetic nanocomposites can be manufactured directly on chips, engineers could design computers that are smaller and, equally important, cooler than anything available today.
Technology Research News August 13, 2003	Molecule makes ring rotor Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have interlocked large, ring-shaped molecules to make a molecular rotor that moves in only one direction. The molecule could eventually be used as a nanoscale motor or winch.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Prachi Patel	Laser-Heated Hard Drives Could Break Data Density Barrier Scientists at Seagate Technology show that heat-assisted magnetic recording could break the looming terabit-per-square-inch data limit
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Eric Smalley	Memory Stores Three Bits in One Researchers have built a prototype molecular memory device that stores three bits in the same spot, multiplying storage density without increasing the device footprint.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Metal atoms make silicon magnetic Devices made from magnetic semiconductors can make use of the spin of the electron in addition to its charge. These spintronics devices are potentially faster and consume less power than today' electronics.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Eric Smalley	Microscopic mix strengthens magnet Magnets are usually an either-or proposition. They either generate a strong magnetic field or they hold up well in the presence of external magnetic fields. A method that mixes the two types of magnets at the nanoscale could pave the way for smaller electric motors and generators.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003	Spin material handles heat Researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have doped, or mixed the semiconductor zinc oxide with the metal manganese to make a ferromagnetic semiconductor material that retains its magnetic properties at temperatures as high as 177 degrees Celsius.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Sally Adee	Rambus Aims for New Ultralow-Power DRAM New mobile-memory initiative aimed at high-bandwidth, low-power smart phones.
InternetNews November 28, 2007	Samsung Predicts End of DRAM Oversupply Samsung Electronics said the oversupply of memory chips used in personal computers was expected to ease in 2008 as growing demand for portable gadgets prompts a shift in production to Flash chips.
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Chemistry World July 20, 2012 Simon Hadlington	New type of chemical bond around dwarf stars The work, led by Trygve Helgaker at the University of Oslo in Norway, not only provides insights into fundamental aspects of electronic interactions with magnetic fields, but also sheds light on the exotic chemistry that exists in stellar environments.