When it comes to two-dimensional materials, it's best to expect the unexpected. Writing in Nature, researchers at Columbia find evidence that two competing phenomena—superconductivity and ...

Multiferroics are materials that exhibit more than one ferroic property, typically ferroelectricity (i.e., a spontaneous electric polarization that can be reversed by electric fields) and ...

In this article, an overview of ferroelectricity and its current development in the realm of ferroelectric-based nanoelectronics is given. Opposite charges are attracted to one another and desire to ...

Researchers have discovered a new single-element ferroelectric material that alters the current understanding of conventional ferroelectric materials and has future applications in data storage ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Because of its polarized nature, ferroelectric materials are useful in data storage ...

Students working in UNF's LEGO (Layered Epitaxial Growth of Oxides) Lab. (Courtesy: University of North Florida) A team of researchers from the University of North Florida’s Atomic-LEGO laboratory ...

Surprise: some of the team that made the unexpected discovery Ferroelectricity can exist in a sheet of material just a few nanometres thick. This new and unexpected discovery by researchers in the US ...

Certain two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals-bonded bilayers (e.g., WTe₂ and h-BN) exhibit “sliding ferroelectricity (SF),” where electric polarization arises from specific stacking configurations ...

Hafnium-based thin films, with a thickness of only a few nanometres, show an unconventional form of ferroelectricity. This allows the construction of nanometre-sized memories or logic devices. However ...

National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have discovered a novel form of ferroelectricity in a single-element bismuth monolayer that can produce regular and reversible dipole moments for ...