Surprising discovery: Magnetism in a common material for microelectronics

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-discovery-magnetism-common-material-microelectronics.html

"Nickel monosilicide: elusive form of magnetic order, consisting of magnetic spins... magnetism persists at temperatures well above electronics' operating temperatures, can be flipped with small magnetic fields... primarily non-centrosymmetric (lacking inversion symmetry) and antiferromagnetic with slight canting of spins yielding very small uncompensated magnetization, crucial to observed anomalous Hall effect (coupling of the magnetic and electronic properties)... reliable, fast, small, low cost... computers, magnetic memory"