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A very thin metal thread.

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  • Their approach was to detect and control spin-flip torque -- a phenomenon that occurs in a metallic nanowire, that is half ferromagnetic and the other is nonmagnetic.
  • When the nanowire was removed, the orange fluorescence was immediately reduced 80-fold, confirming that the nanowire was the predominant source of fluorescent...
  • MIT scientists have harnessed the construction talents of tiny viruses to build ultra-small "nanowire" structures for use in very thin lithium-ion batteries.
  • Beyond-CMOS emerging technologies such as nanowire transistors, quantum devices, carbon nanotubes, graphene, or molecular electronics are expected to scale below 5 nm.
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