Highlights
![Left: Nickel ions in Ni2Mo3O8 (spheres inside center of polygons) form a honeycomb lattice of tetrahedral (green) and octahedral (blue) polygons. Right: Excitations of the magnetism from the tetrahedral polygons form a neutron scattering pattern (orange).](/-/media/bes/mse/images/highlights/2024/Dai.png?h=424&w=876&la=en&hash=1DF4C89EE885981F2CF5992A7B7D2E81FBA60376FA01F737B29BCE266859887D)
What If a Nonmagnetic Material Could Be Magnetic?
Electric fields in a crystal of Ni2Mo3O8 create spin excitons and elusive magnetic order.
![Depiction of the newly discovered magnetic order of nickel spins (arrows) in nickel monosilicide as revealed by neutron diffraction (background) for the two sites of nickel (spheres).](/-/media/bes/images/highlights/2024/NiSi_BES-DOE.jpg?h=3382&w=2553&la=en&hash=CA2489BD62715C4003D6E8BBDDCE11D75C128C509549A243339DDFBEA647CFCB)
A Surprising Discovery: Magnetism in a Common Material for Microelectronics
For the first time, researchers discovered magnetic order at high temperature in a metal widely used by the electronics industry.