It could benefit everything from acoustic blankets for aircraft soundproofing to shock absorbers and elastic cloaks that shield sensitive electronic systems from external mechanical disturbances. “The ...

Up until recently, researchers thought they had the behaviors of ferroelectric materials mostly figured out. “The conventional wisdom is that you can put almost any material under mechanical stress, ...

These materials also have piezoelectric properties, which means the material generates an electrical charge under an applied mechanical ... In addition, ferroelectric materials are especially ...

Elastic ferroelectrics such as these, with excellent resistance to mechanical and ferroelectric fatigue, have broad application prospects in wearable electronics and smart healthcare. This work ...

So-called 'energetic materials' store a large amount of this chemical energy that, when released, can be converted into electric, thermal, or mechanical energy. Molecular energetic ferroelectric ...

The in-memory ferroelectric differentiator demonstrated energy efficiency, consuming about 0.24 femtojoules (fJ) per differential calculation when operated at 1 MHz (megahertz) frequency.

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications now shows that the piezoelectricity in ferroelectric Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 thin films can be dynamically changed by electric field cycling ...

Ferroelectrics are a class of materials that exhibit so-called spontaneous electric polarization, which is the separation of electric charges that can be reversed when an external electric field ...

As system designers seek to manipulate larger data sets while reducing power consumption, ferroelectric memory may be part of the solution. It offers an intermediate step between the speed of DRAM and ...

Although not as prevalent as Flash memory storage, ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) offers a range of benefits over the former, mostly in terms of endurance and durability, which makes it popular for a ...