Ruthenium Dioxide Strain Engineering Reveals Potential for Altermagnetic Spintronics
By Rupendra Brahambhatt · Interesting Engineering · 2026-08-02

According to reporting from Interesting Engineering, physicists have identified hidden magnetic properties in ruthenium dioxide by applying epitaxial strain to films just two nanometers thick. Researchers used spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to observe a momentum-depende
According to reporting from Interesting Engineering, physicists have identified hidden magnetic properties in ruthenium dioxide by applying epitaxial strain to films just two nanometers thick. Researchers used spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to observe a momentum-depende