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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022

Manipulating magnetic domains through femtosecond pulses of magnetic field

While the electronic industry has successfully entered the nanoworld following Moore’s law, the speed of manipulating and storing data lags behind, creating the so-called ultrafast technology gap. Processors already have a clock speed of a few gigahertz, while the storage on a magnetic hard disk requires a few nanoseconds. This bottleneck can also be found in magnetic random access memory devices. The use of ultrafast pulses of light has demonstrated effectiveness in manipulating magnetic orders on very short time scales. However, the physical processes involved are still poorly understood, and such a control reaches the micrometer scale at best, effectively preventing their use for…

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