Phys.org  May 15, 2024 Nickel monosilicide (NiSi) is widely used to connect transistors in semiconductor circuits. Earlier theoretical calculations had incorrectly predicted that NiSi was not magnetic. As a result, researchers had never fully explored magnetism in NiSi. An international team of researchers (USA – University of Missouri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Austria, Poland) showed that NiSi metal could provide suitable new platform. The study showed high-temperature antiferromagnetism in single-crystal NiSi with Néel temperature. Antiferromagnetic order in NiSi was accompanied by non-centrosymmetric magnetic character with small ferromagnetic component in the a–c plane. It was found that NiSi manifests distinct magnetic […]