New method to autonomously identify novel functional magnetic materials (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Science

New method to autonomously identify novel functional magnetic materials

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Discovering novel functional materials by the conventional approach is time-consuming and demands skill. Now, researchers from TUS and NIMS report a method that can autonomously identify new functional magnetic materials, speeding up their prediction as well as synthesis. Using first-principles calculations to determine magnetocrystalline anisotropy, followed by Bayesian optimization to efficiently search for candidate materials, and finally, through monoatomic alternating stacking, the researchers have successfully fabricated a new magnetic multilayer material, [Fe/Co/Fe/Ni]13.

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Prof. Masato Kotsugi, Tokyo University of Science

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