Shocking: Environmental chemistry affects ferroelectric film polarity the same way electric voltage does

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 11:49 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Ferroelectric materials are interesting scientifically, and, while they are used for some things now, they are potentially useful for even more applications in the future,” Brian Stephenson tells PhysOrg.com. Stephenson is a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois. He has been working on a project to study chemical switching in a ferroelectric film.

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