Magnetic Attraction: NIST/CU Microchip Demonstrates Concept of 'MRAM for Biomolecules' (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Magnetic Attraction: NIST/CU Microchip Demonstrates Concept of 'MRAM for Biomolecules'

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This micrograph of a magnetic microfluidic chip was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado Boulder. Brief pulses of electrical current in the two orange lines generate a magnetic field to turn individual spin valves (blue bars) on and off, moving a magnetic bead up or down the "ladder."

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W. Altman/CU and NIST

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