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Volume 2 Issue 11, November 2019

Transducers get thin and integrated

Ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide films that are only 10 nm thick can be used to create integrated nanoelectromechanical transducers. The cover shows a scanning electron microscopy image of a nanomechanical resonator built by integrating the transducer (highlighted in pink) into an aluminium nitride (highlighted in green) on silicon membrane.

See Ghatge et al.

Image: Mayur Ghatge, University of Florida. Cover Design: David Shand.

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