Discovery of material with amazing properties
June 24, 2012
The "8-armed candlestick" in this unusual image of
the measurements is proof that the "walls" of the domains in TbFeO3
repel each other at certain temperatures and therefore lie at a fixed
distance from each other. The signal from the "ordinary" chaotic domain
walls would more resemble a fly swatter. Credit: Niels Bohr Institute
Normally a material can be either magnetically or
electrically polarized, but not both. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr
Institute at the University of Copenhagen have studied a material that
is simultaneously magnetically and electrically polarizable. This opens
up new possibilities, for example, for sensors in technology of the
future. The results have been published in the scientific journal, Nature
Materials.
