{"id":244607,"date":"2026-09-29T01:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/discovery-confirms-rare-switchable-electrical-property-in-widely-used-electronics-material"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:31:09","slug":"discovery-confirms-rare-switchable-electrical-property-in-widely-used-electronics-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/discovery-confirms-rare-switchable-electrical-property-in-widely-used-electronics-material","title":{"rendered":"Discovery confirms rare, switchable electrical property in widely used electronics material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-confirms-rare-switchable-electrical-property-in-widely-used-electronics-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Husker research team\u2019s latest research could open the door to broader use of a class of materials whose electrical properties may someday power next-generation electronics, high-density energy storage, improved computer memory and new strategies for cooling.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ady5526\" target=\"_blank\">new paper published in <i>Science<\/i><\/a>, University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln researchers Xiaoshan Xu, Alexei Gruverman and Evgeny Tsymbal demonstrate that hafnium oxide\u2014a tough, heat-resistant chemical compound used widely in modern electronics\u2014is inherently antiferroelectric, a rare quality found in very few materials. Unlike hafnium oxide, also known as hafnia, many intrinsically antiferroelectric materials contain the toxin lead, which limits their widespread use.<\/p>\n<p>The trio said the discovery will help settle a longstanding debate about hafnia\u2019s properties. Though scientists have long observed the material\u2019s antiferroelectric behavior, they have disagreed on whether it results from \u201ctrue\u201d antiferroelectricity or from an artificial effect stemming from the entrapment or redistribution of electrical charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Husker research team\u2019s latest research could open the door to broader use of a class of materials whose electrical properties may someday power next-generation electronics, high-density energy storage, improved computer memory and new strategies for cooling. In a new paper published in Science, University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln researchers Xiaoshan Xu, Alexei Gruverman and Evgeny Tsymbal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244607","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=244607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}