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Probing magnetism at the nanoscale

Nature Nanotechnology volume 2, pages 674–675 (2007)Cite this article

Two groups have used scanning tunnelling microscopes to explore the behaviour of magnetic materials in exquisite detail with a view to developing new approaches to data storage.

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Figure 1: The spin, S, on a single magnetic ion, such as iron, has a preferred orientation, which is a necessary condition for single-atom magnetic data storage.

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  1. Harald Brune is in the Laboratory of Nanostructures at Surfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. harald.brune@epfl.ch,

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