The highly magnetic element holmium was trapped and subjected to mass spectrometry. Reducing the range of the value known as the Q value range by a factor of 50 means a much narrower range for ...

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments seek secure supply.

Fu Yuxi from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the first room temperature holmium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Ho ...