NIST-developed OOMMF software helps to enable one of the top 10 physics advances in 2002. (General Developments).Object-Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework (OOMMF OOMMF Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework (ITL/NIST Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division project) OOMMF Object Oriented Micro Magnetic Framework ) software, developed by NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. mathematicians, helped to enable one of the top advances in physics Advances in Physics, published by Taylor & Francis, is a leading physics journal that focuses on review articles in condensed matter physics. Advances in Physics is consistently ranked as most influential condensed matter physics journal (impact factor 2004, ISI: 15. last year. The Institute of Physics recently listed their top 10 stories in physics for 2002 on the Web at http://physicsweb.org/article/news/6/l2/14. Number 7 on the list is the development of a nanoscale magnetic logic gate and shift register by a team at the University of Durham (body, education) University of Durham - A busy research and teaching community in the historic cathedral city of Durham, UK (population 61000). Its work covers key branches of science and technology and traditional areas of scholarship. . As reported in their article in Science last June (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/296/5575/2003), the team used OOMMF to determine the appropriate device widths for containing and controlling the magnetic domain walls. The controlled motion of the walls between magnetic domains is what enables fully magnetic logic operations. CONTACT: Ron Boisvert, (301) 975-3812; ronald. boisvert@nist.gov. |
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