Scanning probe microscopy: Move an atom and watch its spin flip.
It is now possible to write and read magnetic information at the atomic scale by manipulating and imaging atoms on a magnetic template with a spin-polarized scanning tunnelling microscope.
Bucher
Jean-Pierre
JP
Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, UMR CNRS 7504, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. bucher@ipcms.u-strasbg.fr
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