{"id":172894,"date":"2023-09-27T05:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/imaging-the-elusive-skyrmion-neutron-tomography-reveals-their-shapes-and-dynamics-in-bulk-materials"},"modified":"2023-09-27T05:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:23:10","slug":"imaging-the-elusive-skyrmion-neutron-tomography-reveals-their-shapes-and-dynamics-in-bulk-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/imaging-the-elusive-skyrmion-neutron-tomography-reveals-their-shapes-and-dynamics-in-bulk-materials","title":{"rendered":"Imaging the elusive skyrmion: Neutron tomography reveals their shapes and dynamics in bulk materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imaging-the-elusive-skyrmion-neutron-tomography-reveals-their-shapes-and-dynamics-in-bulk-materials3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm to reveal for the first time the 3D shapes and dynamics of very small tornado-like atomic magnetic arrangements in bulk materials.<\/p>\n<p>These collective atomic arrangements, called skyrmions\u2014if fully characterized and understood\u2014could be used to process and store information in a densely packed form that uses several orders of magnitude less energy than is typical now.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional, semiconductor-based method of processing information in binary form (on or off, 0 or 1) employs electrical charge states that must be constantly refreshed by current which encounters resistance as it passes through transistors and connectors. That\u2019s the main reason that computers get hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm to reveal for the first time the 3D shapes and dynamics of very small tornado-like atomic magnetic arrangements in bulk materials. These collective atomic arrangements, called skyrmions\u2014if fully characterized and understood\u2014could be used to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}