{"id":240412,"date":"2026-07-07T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/optical-writing-of-antiferromagnets-points-toward-new-storage-devices-and-energy-efficient-information-systems"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:23:35","slug":"optical-writing-of-antiferromagnets-points-toward-new-storage-devices-and-energy-efficient-information-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/optical-writing-of-antiferromagnets-points-toward-new-storage-devices-and-energy-efficient-information-systems","title":{"rendered":"Optical writing of antiferromagnets points toward new storage devices and energy efficient information systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optical-writing-of-antiferromagnets-points-toward-new-storage-devices-and-energy-efficient-information-systems.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A German-Japanese research team involving the University of Augsburg has made a significant breakthrough in the use of antiferromagnets. For the first time, the team has succeeded in writing magnetic information using only ultrashort laser pulses\u2014without the need for electric currents or magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>Antiferromagnetic materials are considered promising for the next generation of data storage devices because they react particularly quickly and are insensitive to external disturbances. Until now, however, their application has been limited because their magnetic states are difficult to control precisely.<\/p>\n<p>The research team led by experimental physicist Prof. Dr. Istv\u00e1n K\u00e9zsm\u00e1rki has now developed a new method in which it is not the polarization of the light, but its direction of propagation (\u201cpulse\u201d), that is used for control. Through targeted irradiation, it is possible to switch between different magnetic states and write information. Furthermore, this information can also be read out using purely optical means. The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-026-02608-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German-Japanese research team involving the University of Augsburg has made a significant breakthrough in the use of antiferromagnets. For the first time, the team has succeeded in writing magnetic information using only ultrashort laser pulses\u2014without the need for electric currents or magnetic fields. Antiferromagnetic materials are considered promising for the next generation of data [\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-240412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240412","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=240412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}