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Nature Nanotechnology 4, 623 - 625 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.286

Subject Categories: Nanomagnetism and spintronics | Nanoparticles

Spintronics: Shedding light on nanomagnets

Igor Z caronutic acute1 & Andre Petukhov2

  1. Igor Z caronutic acute is in the Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.
  2. Andre Petukhov is in the Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
    e-mail: zigor@buffalo.edu; e-mail: andre.petukhov@sdsmt.edu


The magnetism of semiconductor nanocrystals can be controlled by shining light on them, which could have applications in information storage and processing.

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