Multiferroic materials tower up
Apr 10, 2004
For generations humans have been engineering
pillars that have more than one function.
The giant stone pillars of the 9th-century
Cordoba Mosque in Andalusia, Spain, for
example, provide both structural stability and
aesthetic appeal. Now researchers in the US
have built pillar structures at the nanometre
scale that combine two markedly different
functions: magnetism and ferroelectricity.
The technological importance of these 21st century
nanopillars could be as far reaching
as that of the ancient building techniques
used in Andalusia.
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