Domain Walls: From Fundamental Properties to Nanotechnology Concepts
Dennis Meier, Jan Seidel, Marty Gregg, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Abstract
Technological evolution and revolution are both driven by the discovery of new functionalities, new materials and the design of yet smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient components. Progress is being made at a breathtaking pace, stimulated by the rapidly growing demand for more powerful and readily available information technology. High-speed internet and data-streaming, home automation, tablets and smartphones are now ‘necessities’ for our everyday lives. Consumer expectations for progressively more data storage and exchange appear to be insatiable. In this context, ferroic domain walls ... More
Technological evolution and revolution are both driven by the discovery of new functionalities, new materials and the design of yet smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient components. Progress is being made at a breathtaking pace, stimulated by the rapidly growing demand for more powerful and readily available information technology. High-speed internet and data-streaming, home automation, tablets and smartphones are now ‘necessities’ for our everyday lives. Consumer expectations for progressively more data storage and exchange appear to be insatiable. In this context, ferroic domain walls have attracted recent attention as a completely new type of oxide interface. In addition to their functional properties, such walls are spatially mobile and can be created, moved, and erased on demand. This unique degree of flexibility enables domain walls to take an active role in future devices and hold a great potential as multifunctional 2D systems for nanoelectronics. With domain walls as reconfigurable electronic 2D components, a new generation of adaptive nano-technology and flexible circuitry becomes possible, that can be altered and upgraded throughout the lifetime of the device. Thus, what started out as fundamental research, at the limit of accessibility, is finally maturing into a promising concept for next-generation technology.
Keywords:
nano-technology,
nanoelectronics,
ferroic domain walls,
data storage,
data exchange,
2D systems,
flexible circuitry
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198862499 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2020 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198862499.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dennis Meier, author
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jan Seidel, author
School of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales
Marty Gregg, author
School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen`s University Belfast
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, author
Associate Laboratory Director, Department of Physics and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
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