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Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
AI agents designed a new Luttinger-compensated magnet, YBaMnFeO5, and identified a 1999 material, YbMnO3, as a room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidate for next-gen memory.
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