{"id":226819,"date":"2025-12-10T01:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/laser-draws-made-to-order-magnetic-landscapes"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:39:17","slug":"laser-draws-made-to-order-magnetic-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/laser-draws-made-to-order-magnetic-landscapes","title":{"rendered":"Laser draws made-to-order magnetic landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7j1JpJ1ccPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, have for the first time succeeded in using existing laser technology to continuously vary the magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials.<\/p>\n<p>This simple and fast method should make a large number of applications possible, including techniques for data storage and processing. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-65921-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes using conventional tools in a novel way produces astounding results. That\u2019s what happened when researchers used the high-tech laser equipment in PSI\u2019s cleanroom for something it was not intended to do. It was originally purchased for photolithography\u2014a process for producing tiny 2D structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, have for the first time succeeded in using existing laser technology to continuously vary the magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials. This simple and fast method should make a large number of applications possible, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226819","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=226819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}