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A new route to dissipationless electronicsPublic release date: 19-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: RIKEN Global Relations Office pr@riken.jp 81-484-621-225 RIKEN
Realization of a new type of magnetic phase in devices opens the door to electronics based on topologically non-trivial materials
A team of researchers at RIKEN and the University of Tokyo has demonstrated a new material that promises to eliminate loss in electrical power transmission. The surprise is that their methodology for solving this classic energy problem is based upon the first realization of a highly exotic type of magnetic semiconductor first theorized less than a decade ago - a magnetic topological insulator.
Development of energy saving technologies is one of the central pursuits of modern science. From advancing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power to improving the infrastructure of the electrical power grid, this pursuit by scientists and engineers takes on a variety of forms. One focus in recent years has been eliminating energy loss in the transmission of power itself, which by some estimates consumes more than 10% of all energy being produced. The research team has demonstrated a new material - a magnetic topological insulator - that can eliminate this loss.
The work by the RIKEN/UT collaboration is closely related at a landmark discovery from the 1980s, the so-called quantum Hall effect. That effect is known to produce dissipationless electricity channels, but it requires large, cumbersome magnets to produce fields 100,000 larger than the earth's magnetic field for its operation. The RIKEN/UT collaboration circumvented this difficulty by using an exotic type of semiconductor predicted to exhibit a similar effect. In contrast to the quantum Hall effect, this effect, known as the quantum anomalous Hall effect, stems from the semiconductor's own magnetization rather than from an external one. At the heart of this new phenomenon is the interaction between magnetic ions and the topological insulator's current carrying particles (known as Dirac fermions), the latter of which are unique because they behave as if they have zero mass.
The devices produced by the RIKEN/UT team are a robust "proof of principle", demonstrating that this new type of dissipationless transport can be harnessed in prototype transistors. While currently requiring cryogenic conditions, improvements in materials design promises to improve the stability of the magnets, making it possible to operate them at higher temperatures. By doing away with external stimuli such as magnetic fields and, in the future, cryogenic cooling, these new magnetic topological insulators may represent the most efficient path to modernizing the power grid by eliminating loss in energy transfer.
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Original publication:
J. G. Checkelsky, J. T. Te, Y. Onose, Y. Iwasa, Y. Tokura. "Dirac-fermion-mediated ferromagnetism in a topological insulator." Nature Physics, 2012, DOI: 10.1038/nphys2388
About RIKEN
RIKEN is Japan's flagship research institute devoted to basic and applied research. Over 2500 papers by RIKEN researchers are published every year in reputable scientific and technical journals, covering topics ranging across a broad spectrum of disciplines including physics, chemistry, biology, medical science and engineering. RIKEN's advanced research environment and strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration has earned itself an unparalleled reputation for scientific excellence in Japan and around the world.
About the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute
The RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) is an interdisciplinary research institute devoted to fostering creative, curiosity-driven basic research and sowing the seeds for innovative new projects. With more than 700 full-time researchers, the ASI acts as RIKEN's research core, supporting inter-institutional and international collaboration and integrating diverse scientific fields including physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and medical science.
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A new route to dissipationless electronicsPublic release date: 19-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: RIKEN Global Relations Office pr@riken.jp 81-484-621-225 RIKEN
Realization of a new type of magnetic phase in devices opens the door to electronics based on topologically non-trivial materials
A team of researchers at RIKEN and the University of Tokyo has demonstrated a new material that promises to eliminate loss in electrical power transmission. The surprise is that their methodology for solving this classic energy problem is based upon the first realization of a highly exotic type of magnetic semiconductor first theorized less than a decade ago - a magnetic topological insulator.
Development of energy saving technologies is one of the central pursuits of modern science. From advancing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power to improving the infrastructure of the electrical power grid, this pursuit by scientists and engineers takes on a variety of forms. One focus in recent years has been eliminating energy loss in the transmission of power itself, which by some estimates consumes more than 10% of all energy being produced. The research team has demonstrated a new material - a magnetic topological insulator - that can eliminate this loss.
The work by the RIKEN/UT collaboration is closely related at a landmark discovery from the 1980s, the so-called quantum Hall effect. That effect is known to produce dissipationless electricity channels, but it requires large, cumbersome magnets to produce fields 100,000 larger than the earth's magnetic field for its operation. The RIKEN/UT collaboration circumvented this difficulty by using an exotic type of semiconductor predicted to exhibit a similar effect. In contrast to the quantum Hall effect, this effect, known as the quantum anomalous Hall effect, stems from the semiconductor's own magnetization rather than from an external one. At the heart of this new phenomenon is the interaction between magnetic ions and the topological insulator's current carrying particles (known as Dirac fermions), the latter of which are unique because they behave as if they have zero mass.
The devices produced by the RIKEN/UT team are a robust "proof of principle", demonstrating that this new type of dissipationless transport can be harnessed in prototype transistors. While currently requiring cryogenic conditions, improvements in materials design promises to improve the stability of the magnets, making it possible to operate them at higher temperatures. By doing away with external stimuli such as magnetic fields and, in the future, cryogenic cooling, these new magnetic topological insulators may represent the most efficient path to modernizing the power grid by eliminating loss in energy transfer.
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Original publication:
J. G. Checkelsky, J. T. Te, Y. Onose, Y. Iwasa, Y. Tokura. "Dirac-fermion-mediated ferromagnetism in a topological insulator." Nature Physics, 2012, DOI: 10.1038/nphys2388
About RIKEN
RIKEN is Japan's flagship research institute devoted to basic and applied research. Over 2500 papers by RIKEN researchers are published every year in reputable scientific and technical journals, covering topics ranging across a broad spectrum of disciplines including physics, chemistry, biology, medical science and engineering. RIKEN's advanced research environment and strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration has earned itself an unparalleled reputation for scientific excellence in Japan and around the world.
About the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute
The RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) is an interdisciplinary research institute devoted to fostering creative, curiosity-driven basic research and sowing the seeds for innovative new projects. With more than 700 full-time researchers, the ASI acts as RIKEN's research core, supporting inter-institutional and international collaboration and integrating diverse scientific fields including physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and medical science.
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One of our recent posts included a reader question about VA loans for home improvements. The reader asked, ?Can we get a loan for home improvements. For example, paint, carpet, and tile floor repairs, ect.??
As we mentioned in the original blog post, the VA does not guaranty separate, ?new purchase? type mortgage loans for home improvements. Eligible borrowers can apply for refinancing loans that either feature additional funds for energy-efficient upgrades to the home, or they can apply for cash-out refinancing loans and use those funds for home improvements.
But chances are good that many readers still want to know why the VA does not guaranty home improvement loans as a stand-alone product.
The answer can be found in the VA loan rules as described in the VA Lender?s Handbook. Chapter Three of that handbook includes a section on eligible VA loan purposes. The guide states, ?The law authorizes VA to guarantee loans made to eligible veterans only for the following purposes?, then proceeds to list all the ways you can use a VA mortgage.
Those ways include:
?To purchase or construct a residence, including a condominium or cooperative unit, to be owned and occupied by the veteran as a home
?To refinance an existing VA-guaranteed or direct loan for the purpose of a lower interest rate.
?To refinance an existing mortgage loan or other indebtedness secured by a lien of record on a residence owned and occupied by the veteran as a home.
?To repair, alter, or improve a residence owned by the veteran and occupied as a home.
?To simultaneously purchase and improve a home.
?To improve a residence owned and occupied by the veteran as the veteran?s home through the installation of a solar heating system, a solar heating and cooling system, or a combined solar heating and cooling system, or through the application of a residential energy conservation measure.? These energy efficiency improvement loans can be made in conjunction with any type of VA purchase or refinancing loan.
?To purchase a one-family residential unit in a condominium housing development approved by VA.
?To purchase a farm residence to be owned and occupied by the veteran as a home.? If the loan includes the purchase of farmland, the farmland is appraised at its residential value only.
The purpose in bold text, ?to repair, alter, or improve?? requires the borrower to have an existing VA home loan that is eligible to be refinanced, or refinance a non-VA loan. The VA does not guaranty stand-alone ?new purchase? type home loans for improvements only. Part of this has to do with the rules for VA mortgages?only under limited circumstances (cash-out refinancing, for example) does the VA allow money back to the borrower in a VA loan transaction that is not a refund of some kind.
Refinancing loans are different?cash out loans are underwritten and processed with an appraisal, credit check, and other requirements?and the loan is secured by the property to be refinanced.
Earlier this month I had the good fortune of visiting China - a place I'm deeply curious about and - aside from some second year university courses, the reporting from the Economist, and the occasional trip over to Tea Leaf Nation - remains too foreign to me for comfort given its enormous importance.
As always China - or to be specific - Beijing is overwhelming. The pollution, the people, the energy, the scale. It can be hard to grasp or describe. But I want to talk about my conversations which were overwhelming in other, equally fantastic ways.
As an indirect result of the trip I just posted a piece up on the WeGov section of TechPresident asking "Is Sina Weibo a Means of Free Speech or a Means of Social Control." The post comes out of a dinner conversation I had in Beijing with Michael Anti, an exceedingly smart and engaging Chinese journalist, political blogger and former Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard who has a very interesting analysis about Weibo (Chinese twitter) as a means to enhance the power of the central government. The piece is worth reading largely because of the thoughts he has that are embedded in it.
There was another interesting thread that came out of our dinner conversation - one that was equally sobering. Michael described himself as part of the "Generation 70," those who, if it isn't obvious, were born in the 70s. For him, the defining trait or esprit, of that generation was a sense of possibility. As he noted "I'm from a humble family and fairly unimportant city in China, and I got to end up at Harvard." For him and his peers as China grew, so did many of their opportunities. He argues that they were able to dream big in ways the almost no previous generation of Chinese could.
He contrasts that with the "Generation 90," those now in mid teens to mid twenties and he sees a generation with small dreams and growing frustration. Forget about access to the top international universities in the world. Indeed, forget about access to top Chinese universities. Such opportunities are now reserved for the super rich and the super connected. What many have felt was a system that was relatively meritocratic is now flagrantly not. According to Anti, the result is that Generation 90 does not have big dreams. Forget about become a world class scientist, founding a leading company, leading an interesting organization. Many do not even dream of owning an apartment. This evolution (devolution?) in moods was summed up succinctly in a poster Anti saw at a demonstration a few months earlier which nihilistic read "We are Generation 90: Sacrifice Us."
A few days later I had the good fortune of being in Soho (a very upscale neighborhood in Beijing) with a group of Generation 90ers. Eating at a very nice Chinese restaurant above a Nike and Apple store I discretely asked a few them if they agreed with Anti's assessment about Generation 90.
Were they optimistic about their future? What were their dreams? Did they feel like opportunities for them were shrinking?
I was stunned.
They agreed with Anti. Here I was, in the nation's capital, sitting in an upper middle class restaurant, with a vibrant, intelligent, bilingual group of young Chinese. This is a group that would easily fit in the top 5% in terms of education, opportunity and income, and most probably in the 1%. And they felt that opportunity for their generation were limited. Their dreams, were more limited than the generation before them.
Maybe this is a sort of Gen X syndrome Chinese style, but if I were the Chinese government, such sentiment would have me worried. There is an acceptance - from what I observed - in China that the system is rigged - but there was clearly a sense that before the benefits were more widely distributed, or at least available on a limited meritocratic basis.
I've never been as bullish on China as some of my peers. Between the demographic time bomb that is about to explode, the fact the state spends more on internal security than the military and the weak sense of the rule of law (essential for any effective market) I've felt that China's problems are deeper and ultimately harder to address than say those in India or Brazil. But this conversation has given me new pause. If the 5% or worse, the 1% don't feel like China can make room for them, where does that leave everyone else not in the .1%? These are, of course, problems many societies must face. But public discourse in China on a subject like this is almost certainly much harder to engage in than in say, Brazil, India or America.
China is a wonderfully complex and nuanced place. So maybe this all means nothing. Maybe it is a sort of Gen X funk. But it has given me a whole lot more to think about.
If you?ve been considering doing internet marketing for your small business, you certainly might have seen or heard a lot of people discussing the advantages of it. However, as a business owner, you can not rely solely around the opinion of other people. You need to have good knowledge of this type of marketing, of the benefits and advantages and of the methods in which you can use it effectively. This guide can help you understand this better.
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