Shrinking ferroelectric tunnel junctions can significantly boost their performance in memory devices, as reported by ...

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is an effective method for examining ferroelectric materials due to its nanometer-level resolution and high sensitivity, inherited from atomic force microscopy ...

Chinese scientists unveil the world’s smallest ferroelectric transistor with ultralow power and tiny gate for future AI chips ...

By engineering the device structure of ferroelectric memory and introducing a nanogate-induced electric field concentration effect, the researchers developed a ferroelectric transistor capable of ...

When we hear about moving objects with electricity, most of us imagine a "pulling force." Positive and negative charges ...

The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice. Researchers achieved this by creating ...

Ferroelectric crystals are a special class of materials that exhibit spontaneous electric polarization, which can be reversed by applying an external electric field. These crystals have a ...

A new fundamental understanding of polymeric relaxor ferroelectric behavior could lead to advances in flexible electronics, actuators and transducers, energy storage, piezoelectric sensors and ...

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) images of columns of aluminium, boron and nitrogen atoms as they move in response to an electric field. Left: In-situ experimental STEM images. Right: ...

The ferroelectrical properties of materials have found a variety of uses over the years, including in semiconductor applications. Ferroelectric memory is among the most interesting and possibly ...