«It's a very, very significant event,» says electrical engineer Carlton Osburn of North Carolina State University, member of a research team that
studied hafnium and other advanced transistor materials.
Not exact matches
«Since the structures of this material are compatible with silicon technology, we can expect that new non-volatile memory devices with ferroelectric polycrystalline layers of
hafnium oxide will be able to be built directly onto silicon in the near future,» says the corresponding author of the
study and head of the Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Nanoelectronics, Andrei Zenkevich.
While the environmental implications of the major industrial metals (e.g., iron and copper) have been extensively
studied [3], the environmental burdens of many of the minor metals (e.g., niobium, rhenium,
hafnium) are essentially unknown, even though they are increasingly employed by industry.
Because all the
hafnium - 182 decayed to tungsten - 182 during the first 50 million years of Solar System history, these findings indicate that the mantle material that melted to form the flood basalt rocks that the team
studied originally had more
hafnium than the rest of the mantle.