News tagged with bismuth ferrite

Enhancing the magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley researchers find enhanced and controllable magnetization in unique bismuth ferrite films.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New Path To Solar Energy Via Solid-State Photovoltaics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab researchers have found a new mechanism by which the photovoltaic effect can take place in semiconductor thin-films. This new path to energy production brightens the future for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Domain walls that conduct electricity

The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 1