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A leak of information

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As capacitors, the ubiquitous components of electronic circuitry, get smaller, keeping them insulating is a challenge. But that's not necessarily bad news — some conductivity might be just the thing for data storage.

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  1. Pavlo Zubko and Jean-Marc Triscone are in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. pavlo.zubko@unige.ch; jean-marc.triscone@unige.ch,

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