{"id":197234,"date":"2024-10-08T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/on-demand-nanoengineering-boosts-materials-for-advanced-memory-storage"},"modified":"2024-10-08T16:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:04:59","slug":"on-demand-nanoengineering-boosts-materials-for-advanced-memory-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/on-demand-nanoengineering-boosts-materials-for-advanced-memory-storage","title":{"rendered":"On-demand nanoengineering boosts materials for advanced memory storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-demand-nanoengineering-boosts-materials-for-advanced-memory-storage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next-generation technologies, such as leading-edge memory storage solutions and brain-inspired neuromorphic computing systems, could touch nearly every aspect of our lives \u2014 from the gadgets we use daily to the solutions for major global challenges. These advances rely on specialized materials, including ferroelectrics \u2014 materials with switchable electric properties that enhance performance and energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a novel technique for creating precise atomic arrangements in ferroelectrics, establishing a robust framework for advancing powerful new technologies. The findings are published in Nature Nanotechnology (\u201cOn-demand nanoengineering of in-plane ferroelectric topologies\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal modification of the atoms and electric dipoles that form these materials is crucial for new information storage, alternative computation methodologies or devices that convert signals at high frequencies,\u201d said ORNL\u2019s Marti Checa, the project\u2019s lead researcher. \u201cOur approach fosters innovations by facilitating the on-demand rearrangement of atomic orientations into specific configurations known as topological polarization structures that may not naturally occur.\u201d In this context, polarization refers to the orientation of small, internal permanent electric fields in the material that are known as ferroelectric dipoles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next-generation technologies, such as leading-edge memory storage solutions and brain-inspired neuromorphic computing systems, could touch nearly every aspect of our lives \u2014 from the gadgets we use daily to the solutions for major global challenges. These advances rely on specialized materials, including ferroelectrics \u2014 materials with switchable electric properties that enhance performance and energy efficiency. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,4,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197234","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}