UMD Scientists Make Magnetic New Graphene Discovery

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Published: Thursday, April 14 2011 09:14

University of Maryland researchers have discovered a way to control magnetic properties of graphene that could lead to powerful new applications in magnetic storage and magnetic random access memory.

The finding by a team of Maryland researchers, led by Physics Professor Michael S. Fuhrer of the UMD Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials is the latest of many amazing properties discovered for graphene.

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CNAM Researchers, Led by Johnpierre Paglione, Write Article Chosen as 2010 Highlight by IoP

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Published: Friday, April 08 2011 09:37

The article Superconductivity at 23 K in Pt doped BaFe2As2 single crystals, by researchers at the UMD Physics, was selected as part of IoP Science's Highlights of 2010. Originally published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, the article was selected for receiving some of the highest praise from referees and for its high number of downloads.

This research is supported by Maryland's AFOSR-MURI grant, involving Richard Green, Johnpierre Paglione and Ichiro Takeuchi.

Recent Scenes from Antarctica

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Published: Monday, March 07 2011 14:45

The Atlantic has posted recent images of Antarctica, its environment, and some of the scientific work taking place there -- including images of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which several of our researchers are directly involved with.

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Three Meter Sphere Arrival

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Published: Friday, February 25 2011 09:14

Below is a time-lapse video, sapnning 1.5 days, of the arrival of the 3-meter sphere. Professor Dan Lathrop and his team are establishing the world's largest experiment designed to duplicate the earth as a self-generator of a magnetic field.