{"id":246012,"date":"2026-10-27T05:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/tiny-shifts-in-iron-content-tip-a-potential-memory-material-between-competing-magnetic-states"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:42:46","slug":"tiny-shifts-in-iron-content-tip-a-potential-memory-material-between-competing-magnetic-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/tiny-shifts-in-iron-content-tip-a-potential-memory-material-between-competing-magnetic-states","title":{"rendered":"Tiny shifts in iron content tip a potential memory material between competing magnetic states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A team of Yale researchers has figured out what gives a magnetic material its mysterious properties, a discovery that could help boost computing memory and the field of \u201cspintronics.\u201d Their work is <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/99yr-nqbx\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Iron-intercalated niobium disulfide (Fe\u2093NbS\u2082) is a material in which iron atoms are inserted into the gaps between layers of niobium disulfide. Materials scientists have taken a great interest in the material because they can switch its resistance states by sending electrical current pulses through it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very surprising thing, because usually it\u2019s difficult to switch such states with electrical current at a low density,\u201d said professor Yu He, who led the study. Wenxin Li, a Ph.D. student in He\u2019s lab, is the first author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Yale researchers has figured out what gives a magnetic material its mysterious properties, a discovery that could help boost computing memory and the field of \u201cspintronics.\u201d Their work is published in Physical Review Letters. Iron-intercalated niobium disulfide (Fe\u2093NbS\u2082) is a material in which iron atoms are inserted into the gaps between layers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246012","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=246012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}