APS March 2006 BNL Newsroom
The March meeting of the American Physical Society will take place March
13-17, 2006 at the Marriott Waterfront hotel in Baltimore, MD. A
number of scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory will be presenting
their research, including those listed below.
Shrinking Magnetic Storage Media Down to the Nanoscale
In the world of electronic and magnetic devices, the goal is to get smaller. "The smaller space one bit of information can occupy, the more data you can get into a device and the faster it can operate," says Yimei Zhu, a senior scientist at Brookhaven. Zhu will present his work assessing the properties of materials that may lead to magneto-electronic devices on the scale of billionths of a meter at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, on Monday, March 13, 2006.
Freezing Magnets With Magnets
Jason Gardner, a scientist at Brookhaven and and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been able to freeze a spin liquid by applying a magnetic field. This liquid-to-solid transition (like water to ice) allowed Gardner and his colleagues to reveal an unusual property of a spin liquid system, a property that may hold the key to understanding this unusual magnetic state and how it could be used to better understand superconductivity.
Brookhaven Scientists Working Toward Practical Hydrogen-Storage Materials
Hydrogen-storage materials hold the promise of supporting many exciting new technologies, such as clean, efficient hydrogen fuel cells for automobiles. At the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists are working toward this goal by studying the basic mechanisms that underlie reversible hydrogen storage in certain materials.
NSLS Student-Researcher Talks at the March APS Meeting
Each year, the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory hosts several high-school and college students, who come to the facility to perform research using its bright beams of x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light. This year, four of these students will be presenting the results of their research at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Baltimore, Maryland.
New Wrinkle in the Mystery of High-Tc Superconductors
In the twenty years since the discovery of high-temperature (Tc) superconductors, scientists have been trying to understand the mechanism by which electrons pair up and move coherently to carry electrical current with no resistance. "We are still at the beginning," says Tonica Valla, a physicist at Brookhaven, who will give a talk on his group's latest results at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on Thursday, March 16, 2006.
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