Latest Bismuth ferrite Stories

2011-09-15 12:22:34

Berkeley Lab scientists uncover the secret of remarkable photovoltages in ferroelectrics If solar cells could generate higher voltages when sunlight falls on them, they'd produce more electrical power more efficiently. For over half a century scientists have known that ferroelectrics, materials whose atomic structure allows them to have an overall electrical polarization, can develop very high photovoltages under illumination. Until now, no one has figured out exactly how this photovoltaic...

2011-03-29 19:48:15


2011-03-19 04:47:27

"The nation that controls magnetism will control the universe," famed fictional detective Dick Tracy predicted back in 1935. Probably an overstatement, but there's little doubt the nation that leads the development of advanced magnetoelectronic or "spintronic" devices is going to have a serious leg-up on its Information Age competition. A smaller, faster and cheaper way to store and transfer information is the spintronic grand prize and a key to winning this prize is understanding and...

2010-03-31 10:09:36


2009-11-14 07:38:36

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current crop of piezoelectric materials has been identified by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley. The key to this success is the use of bismuth ferrite, a compound with a...

2009-01-29 14:20:12

Exploring the ultimate nanoscale for future electronics The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically "“ to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most advanced elements - if a way can be found to control domain walls, the ultrathin transition zones that separate regions of a material having different magnetic, electric, or other properties. In a material called bismuth...

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