Applying pressure reaps material rewards
Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 08:03
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers in Japan have succeeded in growing single crystals of yttrium manganite (YMnO3) using a high-pressure material-growth technique1. Developed by Shintaro Ishiwata and his colleagues from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and the University of Tokyo, the technique reveals how this materials atomic structure gives it multiferroic properties, which hold promise as a route to low-power-consumption electronic memories.
