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Technology Research News October 17, 2005	Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions.
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
Wired April 2000 David Voss	Instant Access Memory He's already set off one computer storage revolution. Now Stuart Parkin is reengineering RAM so we'll never have to boot up again.
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.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Joel E. Moore	Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface
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.
Chemistry World September 18, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Researchers See Electrons in a Spin Scientists in the US have successfully measured the spin polarisation state of single atoms adsorbed to a surface, bringing the prospect of quantum computing and spin-based electronics (spintronics) a step closer.
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.
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.
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.
Popular Mechanics October 17, 2007 Glenn Derene	Why Big Hard Drives Won't Just Be for Big Nerds: Buzzword Sure, they're taking place on a subatomic level that just won the Nobel Prize for physics. But overlooked innovations in hard-drive capacity are also pushing us into a new era of computing.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 Eric Smalley	Electron teams make bigger qubits Making quantum computers from electronic chips rather than cumbersome laboratory equipment requires control over individual electrons. A scheme that has a string of electrons acting as one could ease the task by expanding the target to a whopping 250 millionths of a millimeter.
Chemistry World February 11, 2014 Stephen McCarthy	Multiferroic material breaks symmetry with layers Scientists have made a material capable of both piezoelectric and ferromagnetic behavior. The discovery opens up the possibility of a new class of polarizable and magnetic compounds, and could lead to better devices for storing electronic information.
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 September 2007 Joshua J. Romero	Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms.
CIO August 15, 2003 John Edwards	Spin Control Spintronics might sound like the name of a long-lost '80s pop band, but it's actually a scientific field that may someday lead to more compact and useful mobile devices.
Industrial Physicist Theis & Coufal	How IBM Sustains the Leading Edge Although we constantly focus on the market, IBM Research has also produced a remarkable string of scientific firsts in physics and in other fields of science and engineering.
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.
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.
Reactive Reports September 2005 David Bradley	Liquid Magnets Nickel gallium sulfide (NiGa 2S 4) may behave as a highly unusual "liquid" magnetic material at near absolute zero, according to Japanese and US researchers.
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.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Lieven Vandersypen	Dot-to-Dot Design Researchers are connecting tiny puddles of electrons in a chip and making them compute -- the quantum way.
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.
Chemistry World April 30, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Chemical compass clue to migration mystery Trying to identify the mysterious innate compass that many animals use to navigate the globe, chemists at the University of Oxford, UK, have shown for the first time that the Earth's magnetic field can influence the outcome of a chemical reaction.
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 Eric Smalley	Chips measure electron spin Practical quantum computers are at least a decade away, and some researchers are betting that they will never be built. But a pair of recent experiments may prove them wrong.
Chemistry World November 21, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Magnetic resonance taken to the limit Researchers in the US have taken magnetic resonance imaging to its extreme by developing a technique to detect the spin of a single nucleus.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda	Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors.
Chemistry World October 27, 2010 Laura Howes	Single molecule magnets line up Italian researchers claim that they've bound a single molecule magnet to a gold surface, whilst retaining the magnet's properties.
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.
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Eric J. Lerner	Briefs A magnetic microscope for the brain... Spin and energy -- free?... Finest nanowire arrays... Solar-cell burnout... etc.
Wired October 2001 Wil McCarthy	Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch...
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage	Spintronic Memristors Researchers have made magnetic devices that act like the recently discovered fourth circuit element
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 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.
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.
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 November 17, 2004	Atom Flip Energy Measured Scientists have measured the energy required to flip the magnetic orientation, or spin of a single atom trapped on a surface.
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 Eric J. Lerner	Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery
Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner	News Briefs Detecting a Single Spin... Handheld Chem Lab... Superprisms... Growing Nanotrees...
Geotimes May 2004 Sara Pratt	Deciphering Planetary Magnetism Neptune and Uranus both have unusual magnetic fields that tilt at a 60-degree angle toward their equators. Scientists are now able to model the processes that shape the planets' magnetism.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Light writes data in electrons Researchers developed a spin memory device that writes data as electron spins using lasers, stores the electrons in quantum dots, and reads spin information by applying a voltage to the quantum dots to generate photons.
RootPrompt.org May 24, 2000 Peter Gutmann	Secure Deletion of Data With the use of increasingly sophisticated encryption systems, an attacker wishing to gain access to sensitive data is forced to look elsewhere for information....
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.
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley	Attractive Changing Colors Chemists have discovered that a simple magnet can be used to change the color of nanoparticles of iron oxide in aqueous suspension.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Hot tip boosts disk capacity Many research efforts are aimed at increasing the amount of information that can be stored in a given area of magnetic media like computer disks. One challenge is making smaller magnetic bits that are stable at room temperature.
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.
Chemistry World November 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Magnetic Field Detectors for Less Than a Penny Cheap electronic components industrially manufactured in their millions every year are also smart materials that can sense magnetic fields without any external power supply, UK scientists have discovered.
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.
Chemistry World August 23, 2010 James Urquhart	Growing magnetic leaves A magnetic leaf has been created by researchers in Germany using a simple one-step process to synthesise a complex iron carbide microstructure that mimics the intricate structure of a leaf.