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- Italian Institute of Technology
- Lecce, Italy
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- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatchewan, Canada
Materials science: Build your own superlattice
Guus Rijnders1 & Dave H. A. Blank1
Abstract
Artificial materials made from oxide building blocks turn out to be excellent ferroelectrics. This shows that materials with specific properties can be designed by atomic-scale tailoring of their composition.
Ferroelectric oxides are used in a wide range of applications — random-access memories in computers, accelerometers in airbags or inkjet printers, telecommunication signal-processing devices and high-frequency devices for ultrasonic medical imaging, to name just a few. Predictions1 that the performance of a ferroelectric oxide can be significantly improved by combining it with other oxides in a carefully tailored lattice have now been borne out by experiment.
- Guus Rijnders and Dave H. A. Blank are at the MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology, and the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, PO Box 217, Enschede, The Netherlands.
e-mail: Email: d.h.a.blank@utwente.nl
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