{"id":204241,"date":"2025-01-22T01:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nanoislands-on-silicon-enable-switchable-topological-textures-for-new-electronic-applications"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:27:07","slug":"nanoislands-on-silicon-enable-switchable-topological-textures-for-new-electronic-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nanoislands-on-silicon-enable-switchable-topological-textures-for-new-electronic-applications","title":{"rendered":"Nanoislands on silicon enable switchable topological textures for new electronic applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoislands-on-silicon-enable-switchable-topological-textures-for-new-electronic-applications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferroelectrics at the nanoscale exhibit a wealth of polar and sometimes swirling (chiral) electromagnetic textures that not only represent fascinating physics, but also promise applications in future nanoelectronics. For example, ultra-high-density data storage or extremely energy-efficient field-effect transistors. However, a sticking point has been the stability of these topological textures and how they can be controlled and steered by an external electrical or optical stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Prof. Catherine Dubourdieu (HZB and FU Berlin) has now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-54285-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> a paper in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> that opens up new perspectives. Together with partners from the CEMES-CNRS in Toulouse, the University of Picardie in Amiens and the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, they have thoroughly investigated a particularly interesting class of nanoislands on silicon and explored their suitability for electrical manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have produced BaTiO<sub>3<\/sub> nanostructures that form tiny islands on a silicon substrate,\u201d explains Dubourdieu. The nano-islands are trapezoidal in shape, with dimensions of 30\u201360 nm (on top), and have stable polarization domains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferroelectrics at the nanoscale exhibit a wealth of polar and sometimes swirling (chiral) electromagnetic textures that not only represent fascinating physics, but also promise applications in future nanoelectronics. For example, ultra-high-density data storage or extremely energy-efficient field-effect transistors. However, a sticking point has been the stability of these topological textures and how they can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204241","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}