Companies are turning the tiny compasses in phones into full navigation alternatives ...

Microwave field sensors are important in practice for a variety of applications across astronomy and communication engineering. The nitrogen vacancy center in diamond allows magnetometric sensitivity, ...

Measuring tiny magnetic fields, such as those generated by brain waves, enables many new novel opportunities for medical diagnostics and treatment. The research team led by Dr. Jan Jeske at Fraunhofer ...

A research team from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a compact dynamic cantilever magnetometer with a ...

Although measuring a hysteresis loop can be helpful in the magnetic characterization of materials, this approach does not provide information of interactions or coercivity distributions. First-order ...

Researchers routinely measure magnetic fields to better understand a vast array of natural phenomena. Many of these measurements are performed in shielded environments, but the research community has ...

Cool under pressure: Norman Yao adjusts a diamond anvil cell containing nitrogen–vacancy centres. The instrument sits on top of a positioning system inside a cryostat. (Courtesy: Paul Horowitz/Harvard ...

A Raman Research Institute (RRI) team working with cold Rydberg atoms have used quantum magnetometry to help atomic clocks and magnetometers used for precise timekeeping in navigation, ...