It is now possible to fabricate high-quality thin films of spin ice materials. At higher temperatures, they exhibit the hallmarks of a regular spin ice, but at lower temperatures their physics deviate significantly from the properties observed in the bulk.
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Petrenko, O. Thin spin ice under investigation. Nature Mater 13, 430–431 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3957
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