{"id":214917,"date":"2025-05-28T01:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/phonon-decoupling-in-naturally-occurring-mineral-enables-subatomic-ferroelectric-memory"},"modified":"2025-05-28T01:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:13:07","slug":"phonon-decoupling-in-naturally-occurring-mineral-enables-subatomic-ferroelectric-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/phonon-decoupling-in-naturally-occurring-mineral-enables-subatomic-ferroelectric-memory","title":{"rendered":"Phonon decoupling in naturally occurring mineral enables subatomic ferroelectric memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/phonon-decoupling-in-naturally-occurring-mineral-enables-subatomic-ferroelectric-memory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team has discovered ferroelectric phenomena occurring at a subatomic scale in the natural mineral brownmillerite.<\/p>\n<p>The team was led by Prof. Si-Young Choi from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Semiconductor Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), in collaboration with Prof. Jae-Kwang Lee\u2019s team from Pusan National University, as well as Prof. Woo-Seok Choi\u2019s team from Sungkyunkwan University. The work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-025-02233-7\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in Nature Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic devices store data in memory units called domains, whose minimum size limits the density of stored information. However, ferroelectric-based memory has been facing challenges in minimizing domain size due to the collective nature of atomic vibrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has discovered ferroelectric phenomena occurring at a subatomic scale in the natural mineral brownmillerite. The team was led by Prof. Si-Young Choi from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Semiconductor Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), in collaboration with Prof. Jae-Kwang Lee\u2019s team from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214917","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=214917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}