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Novel Full Switching and Photo-galvanic effect in PT-invariant Quantum Antiferromagnets — NSF Award to University of Pennsylvania

Non-technical Abstract: The current memory technology in the commonly used hard drives is based on ferromagnetic materials that contain Cobalt or Iron. The operating speed limit for these materials is often in the gigahertz (1,000,000,000 Hz) regime. Another class of magnetic material known as antiferromagnets can supp

Award titleNovel Full Switching and Photo-galvanic effect in PT-invariant Quantum Antiferromagnets
Award ID2436097
AwardeeUniversity of Pennsylvania
CityPHILADELPHIA
StatePA
Amount obligated$566,139
Principal investigatorLiang Wu
ProgramCONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
Start date02/15/2026
AbstractNon-technical Abstract: The current memory technology in the commonly used hard drives is based on ferromagnetic materials that contain Cobalt or Iron. The operating speed limit for these materials is often in the gigahertz (1,000,000,000 Hz) regime. Another class of magnetic material known as antiferromagnets can support memory operation in the much higher terahertz (1,000,000,000,000 Hz) frequency. This project is to designed to realize the switching between the bit 1 and bit 0 memory states i
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