{"id":181565,"date":"2024-01-28T10:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/manipulated-hafnia-paves-the-way-for-next-generation-memory-devices"},"modified":"2024-01-28T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T16:24:16","slug":"manipulated-hafnia-paves-the-way-for-next-generation-memory-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/manipulated-hafnia-paves-the-way-for-next-generation-memory-devices","title":{"rendered":"Manipulated hafnia paves the way for next-generation memory devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/manipulated-hafnia-paves-the-way-for-next-generation-memory-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists and engineers have been pushing for the past decade to leverage an elusive ferroelectric material called hafnium oxide, or hafnia, to usher in the next generation of computing memory. A team of researchers including the University of Rochester\u2019s Sobhit Singh published a study in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> outlining progress toward making bulk ferroelectric and antiferroelectric hafnia available for use in a variety of applications.<\/p>\n<p>In a specific crystal phase, hafnia exhibits <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ferroelectric+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ferroelectric properties <\/a>\u2014that is, electric polarization that can be changed in one direction or another by applying an external electric field. This feature can be harnessed in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/data+storage+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data storage technology<\/a>. When used in computing, ferroelectric memory has the benefit of non-volatility, meaning it retains its values even when powered off, one of several advantages over most types of memory used today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHafnia is a very exciting material because of its practical applications in computer technology, especially for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/data+storage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data storage<\/a>,\u201d says Singh, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cCurrently, to store data we use magnetic forms of memory that are slow, require a lot of energy to operate, and are not very efficient. Ferroelectric forms of memory are robust, ultra-fast, cheaper to produce, and more energy-efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists and engineers have been pushing for the past decade to leverage an elusive ferroelectric material called hafnium oxide, or hafnia, to usher in the next generation of computing memory. A team of researchers including the University of Rochester\u2019s Sobhit Singh published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences outlining progress [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}