Contact: Lynn Yarris
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DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Caption: This image recorded after an electric field was applied to a calcium-doped bismuth ferrite multiferroic film shows in the top image current being conducted within the red rectangle (On). In the bottom image, an opposite electric field was applied to the area within the green rectangle, switching it back to an insulating state (Off).
Credit: image by Chan-Ho Yang, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley
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