Credit: ORNL An ORNL study found that complex oxide materials can self-organize into electrical circuits, which creates the possibility for new types of computer chips.
Researchers studying nanoscale materials at the Dept of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Lab have uncovered remarkable behavior that could advance microprocessors beyond today’s silicon-based chips. A single crystal complex oxide material, when confined to micro- and nanoscales, can act like a multi-component electrical circuit. This behavior stems from an unusual feature of certain complex oxides called phase separation, in which tiny regions in the material exhibit different electronic and magnetic properties.
It means individual nanoscale regions in complex oxide materials can behave as self-organized circuit elements, which ...
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