Ferroelectrics are seen as promising candidates for the electronics of tomorrow. An experiment at the world's largest X-ray laser—the European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg—now shows that their properties can be controlled with high precision at ultrafast time scales—using light.
An international team of researchers led by Le Phuong Hoang and Giuseppe Mercurio from European XFEL has discovered a new way to manipulate the properties of ferroelectric materials extremely quickly and precisely with light. This breakthrough could pave the way for faster, more energy-efficient memory devices or electronic components. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications.
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