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Super-Magnet Sheds Light on Semiconductors
Stony Stevenson writes "A group of researchers at Florida state have demonstrated a magnet design that could shed new light on nanoscience and semiconductor research. 'The Split Florida Helix magnet can direct and scatter laser light at a sample down the centre of the magnet and from four ports on the sides. Due to become fully operational in 2010, the device can generate fields above 25 tesla. The highest-field split magnet in the world currently attains 18 tesla ... The scientists will be able to expand the scope of their experimental approach, learning more about the intrinsic properties of materials by shining light on crystals from angles not previously available in such high magnetic fields.'"
To everyone that replied about how dumb the parent's question was:
Electromagnetic radiation is a variation in the magnetic and electric fields. See superposition, and note that EM radiation is made up of bosons.
The question was not a dumb one.
not only can it do these things to crystals, but it can also take a rather straightforward story summary, and twist it in such a way that it seems to imply that the magnet can bend light. that's a powerful magnet that can bend a story summary
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it