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Researchers use light to generate nanoscale magnetization
Using an engineered metasurface that traps light, Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to generate strong static magnetic fields without using external magnets or magnetic materials – an approach that could advance spintronics, quantum and photonic computing, and data storage.
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Research Matters returns, following ideas from the lab to real life
The second season of Research Matters, a Cornell video podcast, drops today, with a way-too-relevant episode on why we don’t always do the things we know we should.
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Cornell co-founds new institute advancing quantum processor fabrication
MARQUIS, a new Quantum Leap Challenge Institute funded by the National Science Foundation, will develop the materials and manufacturing techniques needed to build quantum processors at scale.
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Where the Beam Points Next: Autonomous Experiments Take Shape at CHESS
An X-ray experiment at Cornell recently did something unusual: It decided for itself where to take its next measurement.
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