Funky ferroelectric properties probed with X-rays
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 10:20
in Physics & Chemistry
Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features called domain walls with unusual properties – such as lines of electrical conduction completely different from the surrounding material. These properties are technologically useful but poorly understood.