News tagged with ferroelectric memory

An unlikely route to ferroelectricity

(Phys.org) -- Ferroelectricity, which was first observed in the 1940s, is an interesting phenomenon involving the spontaneous (non-induced) formation of charge polarization (separation of charge) in certain ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New Fujitsu V series FRAMs deliver optimal design flexibility

Fujitsu Semiconductor America (FSA) today extended its growing portfolio of Ferroelectric memory products with the introduction of a new Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM) product series that features a wide voltage ...

Technology / Semiconductors

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Fujitsu introduces new FRAM product series with extended voltage range

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe today introduces a new FRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory) product series with an extended voltage range of 3.0V – 5.5V, offering significantly greater design flexibility ...

Technology / Semiconductors

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Ferroelectric switching discovered for first time in soft biological tissue

The heart's inner workings are mysterious, perhaps even more so with a new finding. Engineers at the University of Washington have discovered an electrical property in arteries not seen before in mammalian ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate rare combination of electric and magnetic properties in strontium barium manganite

An electric field can displace the cloud of electrons surrounding each atom of a solid. In an effect known as polarization, the cloud centers move away slightly from the positively charged nuclei, which radically ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists watch a next-generation ferroelectric memory bit switch in real time

For the first time, engineering researchers have been able to watch in real time the nanoscale process of a ferroelectric memory bit switching between the 0 and 1 states.

Physics / General Physics

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Heated AFM tip allows direct fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures on plastic

Using a technique known as thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL), researchers have developed a new way to fabricate nanometer-scale ferroelectric structures directly on flexible plastic substrates that would ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Conducting ferroelectrics may be key to new electronic memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Novel properties of ferroelectric materials discovered at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are moving scientists one step closer to realizing a new paradigm of electronic memory storage.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Data storage takes an electric turn

(PhysOrg.com) -- German scientists from the Forschungszentrum Julich and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle have discovered the basis for the next generation of memory devices. In ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Small and stable ferroelectric domains

Researchers are one step closer to figuring out a way to make nano-sized ferroelectric domains more stable, reports a new study in journal Science.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fundamental discovery could lead to better memory chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to improve the performance of ferroelectric materials, which have the potential to make memory devices with more storage ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World record data density for ferroelectric recording

Scientists at Tohoku University in Japan have recorded data at a density of 4 trillion bits per square inch, which is a world record for the experimental "ferroelectric" data storage method. As described the journal Applied Ph ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Discovery could help electronics industry enter new phase

Electronic devices of the future could be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy because of a discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technology of storing electronic information - from old cassette tapes to shiny laptop computers - has been a major force in the electronics industry for decades.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1