How to keep data safe on the long run

Team presents new path to long-term data storage based on atomic-scale defects

08-Apr-2024 - With the development of the internet, social media or cloud computing, the amount of data created worldwide on a daily basis is sky-rocketing. This calls for new technologies which could provide higher storage densities combined with secure long-term data archiving far beyond the capabilities of ...

Innovative computational method unveils high-performance ceramics for extreme environments

Research team identifies hundreds of representatives of a particularly heat-resistant class of materials

31-Jan-2024 - An international research team has developed a method for rapidly discovering new types of materials that function at extremely high temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius. These high-performance ceramics could one day form the basis for more robust coatings, batteries and ...

Novel single-atom catalyst boosts zinc-air battery to record power density

Non-precious yet splendid

20-Dec-2022 - The long-term transformation towards renewable energies is inconceivable without modern energy storage technologies. These include batteries, in which electricity is temporarily stored in the form of chemical energy. Essential for their efficiency is the availability of suitable catalysts that ...

How to cool more efficiently

Scientists break new ground in future refrigeration

03-Dec-2020 - In the journal Applied Physics Reviews, an international research team from the University of Barcelona, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), and TU Darmstadt report on possibilities for implementing more efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration processes. For this ...

A new spin in nano-electronics

Researchers succeed in controlling extremely short-wavelength spin waves

27-Feb-2019 - In recent years, electronic data processing has been evolving in one direction only: The industry has downsized its components to the nanometer range. But this process is now reaching its physical limits. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are therefore exploring spin ...

Three magnetic states for each hole

06-Feb-2017 - Nanometer-scale magnetic perforated grids could create new possibilities for computing. Together with international colleagues, scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have shown how a cobalt grid can be reliably programmed at room temperature. In addition they discovered ...

Random Access Memory on a Low Energy Diet

Researchers develop basis for a novel memory chip

05-Jan-2017 - Memory chips are among the most basic components in computers. The random access memory is where processors temporarily store their data, which is a crucial function. Researchers from Dresden and Basel have now managed to lay the foundation for a new memory chip concept. It has the potential to ...

A highway for spin waves

Researchers in Dresden develop process for controlling innovative information media

04-Feb-2016 - The success story of information processing by way of moving electrons is slowly coming to an end. The trend towards more and more compact chips constitutes a major challenge for manufacturers, since the increasing miniaturization creates partly unsolvable physical problems. This is why magnetic ...

The Puzzle of the Origin of Elements in the Universe

18-Dec-2015 - The LUNA experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy has observed a rare nuclear reaction that occurs in giant red stars, a type of star in which our sun will also evolve. This is the first direct observation of sodium production in these stars, one of the nuclear reactions ...

Nanomagnets: Creating order out of chaos

Physicists engrave nanoscale magnets directly into layer of material

25-Nov-2015 - Miniaturization is the magic word when it comes to nanomagnetic devices intended for use in new types of electronic components. Scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have proposed the use of ion beams for their fabrication. An ultra-fine beam consisting of around 10 neon ...