{"id":200974,"date":"2024-12-07T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/straining-a-materials-atomic-arrangement-may-make-for-cleaner-smarter-devices"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T21:29:59","slug":"straining-a-materials-atomic-arrangement-may-make-for-cleaner-smarter-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/straining-a-materials-atomic-arrangement-may-make-for-cleaner-smarter-devices","title":{"rendered":"Straining a material\u2019s atomic arrangement may make for cleaner, smarter devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/straining-a-materials-atomic-arrangement-may-make-for-cleaner-smarter-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the best way to precisely manipulate a material\u2019s properties to the desired state? It may be straining the material\u2019s atomic arrangement, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State. The team discovered that \u201catomic spray painting\u201d of potassium niobate, a material used in advanced electronics, could tune the resulting thin films with exquisite control.<\/p>\n<p>The finding, published in Advanced Materials (\u201cColossal Strain Tuning of Ferroelectric Transitions in KNbO 3 Thin Films\u201d), could drive environmentally friendly advancements in consumer electronics, medical devices and quantum computing, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>The process, called strain tuning, alters a material\u2019s properties by stretching or compressing its atomic unit cell, which is the repeating motif of atoms that builds up its crystal structure. The researchers use molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), a technique that involves depositing a layer of atoms on a substrate to form a thin film. In this case, they produced a thin film of strain-tuned potassium niobate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the best way to precisely manipulate a material\u2019s properties to the desired state? It may be straining the material\u2019s atomic arrangement, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State. The team discovered that \u201catomic spray painting\u201d of potassium niobate, a material used in advanced electronics, could tune the resulting thin films with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200974","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}