Imperial College researchers claim advance towards monopole magnet

Dr Will Branford talks with New Electronics

Researchers from Imperial College London have created a structure that acts like a single pole of a magnet and say the breakthrough means they are 'one step closer to isolating a magnetic monopole.

Dr Will Branford, an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow, said: "Electronics manufacturers are trying all the time to squeeze more data into the same devices, or the same data into a tinier space for handheld devices like smart phones and mobile computers. However, the innate interaction between magnets has so far limited what they can do. In some new types of memory, manufacturers try to avoid the limitations of magnetism by avoiding using magnets altogether, using things like ferroelectric memory, memristors or antiferromagnets instead."

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