Chemists establish fundamentals of ferroelectric materials

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 12:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Ferromagnetic materials, like compass needles, are useful because their magnetic polarization makes them rotate to align with magnetic fields. Ferroelectric materials behave in a similar way but with electric, rather than magnetic, fields. That external electric fields can reorient the electric polarization of these materials makes them ideal for certain memory applications, such as stored-value […]

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