"The extraordinary responsiveness to relatively weak external stimuli makes Gd5Ge4 and related compounds a phenomenal playground for condensed matter science."
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Scientists customize a magnet's performance by strategically replacing key atoms
Scientists customize a magnet's performance by strategically replacing key atoms: "We revealed that a single site occupied by the Gd atoms is much more active than all of the other Gd sites when it comes to bringing the ferromagnetic order in a complex crystal structure of gadolinium germanide," Pecharsky said...
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magnetism,
materials engineering
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