New family of materials for energy-efficient information storage and processing

Saturday, September 13, 2014 - 03:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Hexagonal rare earth ferrites have been demonstrated to exhibit both spontaneous electric and magnetic dipole moments (as a rare case), which may enable couplings of the static electric and magnetic fields in these materials, suggesting application in energy-efficient information storage and processing.

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