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Physics Colloquium: 3D Micro/Nanoprinted Soft Robots: From Super Mario Bros. to Endovascular Surgery (Prof. Ryan Sochol, University of Maryland, College Park)Sep. 9

  • 3:15 pm
  • Regents Hall, Room 109

Physics Colloquium: Prof. Xiaoming Mao, University of MichiganSep. 16

  • 3:15 pm
  • Regents Hall, Room 109

Physics Colloquium: Life in Complex Fluids (Prof. Paulo E. Arratia, University of Pennsylvania)Sep. 23

  • 3:15 pm
  • Regents Hall, Room 109

Physics Colloquium: Prof. Edwin Fohtung (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)Sep. 30

  • 3:15 pm
  • Regents Hall, Room 109

Physics Colloquium: From the glass transition to creep flows (Prof. Matthieu Wyart, Johns Hopkins University and EPFL)Oct. 7

  • 3:15 pm
  • Regents Hall, Room 109

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X-ray nanotomography of a curved magnetic thin film with perpendicular anisotropy reveals curvature-induced modifications in the magnetic configuration.

Curvature Induced Magnetism

August 14th, 2025

A Georgetown University team, led by postdoctoral fellow Dhritiman Bhattacharya and graduate students Colin Langton and Bradley Fugetta, has demonstrated how bending thin magnetic films can change the way the tiny magnetic regions inside them are arranged. Their work provides direct experimental evidence that curvature can induce a “handedness,” or chirality, in magnetic patterns—a finding that could be a game-changer for spintronics, a field that uses electron spin to store and process information.…