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Graduate student performs experiment for study on hafnium oxide
A graduate student performs an experiment as part of a study on how and why hafnium oxide – a material used to manufacture cellphones and computers – forms into its ferroelectric phase.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants DGE 1842490, DMR 1832829, CHE 2018870 and DMR 1626201.]
Learn more in the University of California, Riverside news story Researchers report discovery of novel electronic state. (Date of image: Aug. 23, 2022; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Feb. 24, 2023)
Credit: Tom Cogill/University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
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