Banishing the "dead layer" (IMAGE)

Brown University

Banishing the "dead layer"

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By growing the multiferroic material as part of a three-layer system, researchers have shown that they can eliminate the "dead layer" effect, in which very thin multiferroics lose their desiraable electrical and magnetic properties. 

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Caretta Lab / Brown University

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