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The current challenge to realizing continuously tunable magnetism lies in our inability to systematically change properties such as valence, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom as well as crystallographic geometry. Here, we demonstrate…

We developed a method for fitting machine-learning interatomic potentials with magnetic degrees of freedom, namely, magnetic Moment Tensor Potentials (mMTP). The main feature of our method consists in fitting mMTP to magnetic forces…

The hydrostatic pressure is expected to be an effective knob to tune the magnetostructural phase transitions of hexagonal MMX alloy. In this study, magnetization measurements under hydrostatic pressure were performed on a MMX martensitic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Qingqi Zeng , Jianlei Shen , Enke Liu , Xuekui Xi , Wenhong Wang , Guangheng Wu , Xixiang Zhang

Interior permanent magnet synchronous machine drives are widely employed in electric traction systems and various industrial processes. However, prolonged exposure to high temperatures while operating can demagnetize the permanent magnets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Shen Zhang , Sufei Li , Lijun He , Jose A. Restrepo , Thomas G. Habetler

Precise modeling soft robots remains a challenge due to their infinite-dimensional nature governed by partial differential equations. This paper introduces an innovative approach for modeling soft pneumatic actuators, employing a nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Wu-Te Yang , Hannah Stuart , Burak Kurkcu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Magnetic properties of more than twenty Cantor alloy samples of varying composition were investigated over a temperature range of 5 K to 300 K and in fields of up to 70 kOe using magnetometry and muon spin relaxation. Two transitions are…

Unmanned micro aerial vehicle research is an active area of development due to the vast potential applications. Prior work towards realizing flapping flight has achieved some success however they have relied heavily upon the use of rotary…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Jason Paul , Alex Fisher , Sridhar Ravi

Future active metamaterials for reconfigurable structural applications require fast, untethered, reversible, and reprogrammable (multimodal) transformability with shape locking. Herein, we aim to construct and demonstrate a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-17 Bihui Zou , Zihe Liang , Zhiming Cui , Kai Xiao , Shuang Shao , Jaehyung Ju

Soft robots are known for their ability to perform tasks with great adaptability, enabled by their distributed, non-uniform stiffness and actuation. Bending is the most fundamental motion for soft robot design, but creating robust, and…

We make progress towards a 3D finite-element model for the magnetization of a high temperature superconductor (HTS): We suggest a method that takes into account demagnetisation effects and flux creep, while it neglects the effects…

Magnetic elastomers deform under a magnetic field, working as a soft actuator. Untethered microbot made of magnetic elastomers have great potentials in performing medical tasks inside human body as mini doctors. However, the lack of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Yukun Xia , Jikun Wang , Ruisen Yang , Tongqing Lu , Tiejun Wang , Zhigang Suo

In this paper, we characterize the performance of and develop thermal management solutions for a DC motor-driven resonant actuator developed for flapping wing micro air vehicles. The actuator, a DC micro-gearmotor connected in parallel with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 David Colmenares , Randall Kania , Miao Liu , Metin Sitti

The coercive field of permanent magnets decays with temperature. At non-zero temperature the system can overcome a finite energy barrier through thermal fluctuations. Using finite element micromagnetic simulations, we quantify this effect,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-29 Simon Bance , Johann Fischbacher , Alexander Kovacs , Harald Oezelt , Franz Reichel , Thomas Schrefl

Advancements in making high-efficiency actuators are an enabling technology for building the next generation of large-format deformable mirrors. The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has developed a new style of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 Rachel Bowens-Rubin , Philip Hinz , Wouter Jonker , Stefan Kuiper , Cesar Laguna , Matthew Maniscalco

One of the most appealing features of magnonics is the easy tunability of spin-waves propagation via external magnetic fields. Usually this requires bulky and power-hungry electromagnets which are not compatible with device miniaturization.…

A tunable magnetic field at low temperatures is essential for numerous applications, including spintronics, magnetic resonance imaging, and condensed matter physics. While commercial superconducting vector magnets are available, they are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-25 Gaia Da Prato , Yong Yu , Ronald Bode , Simon Gröblacher

Time-resolved pump-probe measurements were made at variable heat accumulation in Co/Pd superlattices. Heat accumulation increases the baseline temperature and decreases the equilibrium magnetization. Transient ultrafast demagnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 F. Hoveyda , E. Hohenstein , R. Judge , S. Smadici

Altermagnetism provides new routes to realize Majorana zero modes with vanishing net magnetization. We consider a recently proposed heterostructure consisting of a semiconducting wire on top of an altermagnet and with proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Andreas Hadjipaschalis , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

Thermoelectric devices at the nanoscale offer promising routes for on-chip refrigeration and waste-heat recovery, yet most semiconductor-based implementations suffer from limited tunability and narrow operational ranges. We introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Phillip Mercebach , Sun-Yong Hwang , Bo Lu , Björn Sothmann , Yukio Tanaka , Pablo Burset

Nonlinearity in macroscopic mechanical system plays a crucial role in a wide variety of applications, including signal transduction and processing, synchronization, and building logical devices. However, it is difficult to generate…