Ultrafast rotation of magnetically levitated macroscopic steel spheres

Our world is increasingly powered by electricity, which is largely converted to or from mechanical energy using electric motors. Several applications have driven the miniaturization of these machines, resulting in high rotational speeds. Although speeds of several hundred thousand revolutions per mi...

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Published in:Science advances 2018-01, Vol.4 (1), p.e1701519-e1701519
Main Authors: Schuck, Marcel, Steinert, Daniel, Nussbaumer, Thomas, Kolar, Johann W
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