Ferroelectricity (IMAGE)

Linköping University

Ferroelectricity

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The organic ferroelectric material consists of nanometer-sized stacks of disk-like molecules that act as 'hysterons' with ideal ferroelectric behavior. Combined in a macroscopic memory device, the characteristic rounded-off hysteresis loop results.

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Indre Urbanaviciute och Tim Cornelissen

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