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Scanning Probe Microscopy: Move an Atom and Watch Its Spin Flip

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Journal Nat Nanotechnol
Specialty Biotechnology
Date 2010 May 8
PMID 20448649
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Abstract

It is now possible to write and read magnetic information at the atomic scale by manipulating and imaging atoms on a magnetic template with a spin-polarized scanning tunnelling microscope.

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