Sentences with phrase «ferroelectric polarity»
Experiments by Alejandro Heredia of the University of Aveiro in Portugal and colleagues show that ferroelectric polarity flipping induced by a tiny electrode operates on an area of glycine crystal less than 100 nanometers across.
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Such polarity - reversing materials are called ferroelectric (an analogy with ferromagnetism, even though iron is not involved in the electric version).
(Flipping polarity makes ferroelectric materials act like on - off switches, corresponding to the 1s and 0s of binary data storage.)