Research & Development
Super Strong Magnetic Fields Leave Imprint on Nuclear Matter
Data from heavy ion collisions give new insight into electromagnetic properties of quark-gluon plasma […]
US Department of Energy
Research & Development
Study Probes Risks to Power Plants from Electromagnetic Pulse
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been leading a project to understand how a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, could threaten power plants. […]
Research & Development
Novel Way to Manipulate Exotic Materials
An advance in a topological insulator material — whose interior behaves like an electrical insulator but whose surface behaves like a conductor — could revolutionize the fields of next-generation electronics and quantum computing, according to scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. […]
Research & Development
DIII-D National Fusion Facility Adds Capability to Rapidly Test Key Fusion Science
A new component recently installed at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility is enabling it to quickly change the direction of its magnetic fields, an important feature for predicting the design and performance of future fusion […]
Research & Development
Lighting Up Ultrafast Magnetism in a Metal Oxide
What happens when very short pulses of laser light strike a magnetic material? A large international collaboration led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory set out to answer this very question. As they just reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the laser suppressed magnetic order across the entire material for several picoseconds, or trillionths of a second […]
Materials/Manufacturing