Researchers demonstrate room-temperature ferroelectric states in ultra-thin films of tin and tellurium
Friday, July 15, 2016 - 06:51
in Physics & Chemistry
Just as magnetic materials have opposing North and South poles, ferroelectric materials have opposing positive charges and negative charges that exhibit measurable differences in electric potential. Researchers at MIT and colleagues in China recently demonstrated this ferroelectric behavior along the edges of atomically thin tin-tellurium film at room temperature.