US scientists create new material that could help form new computing technologies

A depiction of magnetic charge ice. Nanoscale magnets are arranged in a two-dimensional lattice. (Source: Yong-Lei Wang/Zhili Xiao)
A team of US scientists has created a new material, called “rewritable magnetic charge ice”, that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.
With potential applications involving data storage, memory and logic devices, magnetic charge ice could someday lead to smaller and