{"id":223993,"date":"2025-10-25T04:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/light-reshapes-ferroelectric-thin-films-for-wireless-sensors-and-micro-devices"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:16:47","slug":"light-reshapes-ferroelectric-thin-films-for-wireless-sensors-and-micro-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/light-reshapes-ferroelectric-thin-films-for-wireless-sensors-and-micro-devices","title":{"rendered":"Light reshapes ferroelectric thin films for wireless sensors and micro-devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-reshapes-ferroelectric-thin-films-for-wireless-sensors-and-micro-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The potential of using low-energy light to shape ferroelectric thin films for micro devices is advancing with an international team of researchers most recently reporting success with \u201cphotostriction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Light-induced nonthermal deformation of materials, or photostriction, has the advantage of directly converting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon energy<\/a> into mechanical motion, offering exciting possibilities for wireless, light-powered sensors and optomechanical devices, says Flinders University researcher Dr. Pankaj Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>Since its discovery in the 1960s, scientists have explored photostriction in a wide range of materials\u2014from semiconductors and oxides to ferroelectrics and polymers. However, many of these systems face challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential of using low-energy light to shape ferroelectric thin films for micro devices is advancing with an international team of researchers most recently reporting success with \u201cphotostriction.\u201d Light-induced nonthermal deformation of materials, or photostriction, has the advantage of directly converting photon energy into mechanical motion, offering exciting possibilities for wireless, light-powered sensors and optomechanical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223993","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=223993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}