Energy and Technology


I read an article about discovering new magnetoelectric effect that intrigued me. Magnetoelectric effect is when electricity is produced by changing the magnetic fields in a vicinity of electric conductors. This effect is important for how the world functions now for example, this effect happens is with power lines. Power lines generate magnetic field into a generator that produces electricity. It has become an importance in technology like finding ways of data storage which is huge concept for everyone. 

Physicist have discovered an object that has this effect that they did not think would work; which is a crystal. I was actually surprised myself that crystals can have that effect and so were the Physicists. They did many experiment on how crystals work like seeing how powerful it was and how to get the max energy. They came to find out that it doesn't matter too much about strength but it is all in the direction of the polarization, which is usually linear but with crystals it is non-linear. This defiantly shocked Physicist even more. They started to investigate why this was and figured that it was the symmetry of the crystal. 


The discover that made me most interested was that they realized this could create new storage technologies. If their next study in trying to change magnetic properties with an electric field instead of the other way around works, this would be the most efficient way to store data in solids like computer hard disk. Right now it takes a lot of time and energy to store all that data but this breakthrough would cut that down in half.   
 
Link to article: 
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914112159.htm
Aliyah Ashby September 16, 2020

Comments

  1. charles velizSeptember 16, 2020 at 9:08 AM

    this was a great example of energy usage and technology. although the grammar can be a little better it has pictures and gives the reader something to visualize while reading.

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  2. Michelle AlmazanSeptember 16, 2020 at 9:26 AM

    A lot of interesting facts, but the grammar threw me off a little too much.

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  3. Curtis HarrisSeptember 18, 2020 at 7:25 AM

    I like the pictures and good way to incorporate how the electromagnetic fields tie in to us.

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