Data has been stored using a unexpected spin phenomenon. Now called ‘zero field switching’ (ZFS), it could be used in compact lower-power memory and computing devices, according to Johns Hopkins University and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The team discovered that magnetisation in a cobalt-iron-boron layer (see diagram) could be flipped ...

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