Physicists defy conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric material
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 18:00
in Physics & Chemistry
In a discovery that could open new pathways to find new materials for nanotechnology devices, physicists have found ferroelectricity could be induced in a thin sheet of strontium titanate. The material ordinarily is not ferroelectric. The finding contradicts conventional wisdom that materials lose ferroelectricity as they are made thinner.