Conventional crystals are materials in which atoms arrange themselves in repeating spatial patterns. Time crystals, on the other hand, are phases of matter characterized by repeating motions over time ...

Twisting atomically thin magnetic layers does more than reshape their electronics—it can create giant, topological magnetic textures. In chromium triiodide, researchers observed skyrmion-like patterns ...

Gouri Sankar Kar, VP R&D compute and memory device technologies at imec, explains how the research organisation, in collaboration with leading semiconductor manufacturers, has addressed key challenges ...