Molecule changes magnetism and conductance

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 15:00 in Physics & Chemistry

One bit of digital information stored on a hard disk currently consists of about 3 million magnetic atoms. Researchers have now developed a magnetic memory with one bit per molecule. By an electric pulse, the metal-organic molecule can be switched reliably between a conductive, magnetic state and a low-conductive, non-magnetic state.

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