A multi-institutional research team has engineered a way to preserve the electrical properties of materials as they are shrunk to the nanoscale. The use of the soft substrate hexagonal boron nitride ...

Typically less than one micron thick, thin films can be conductive or dielectric (non-conductive) and are used in myriad applications. For example, the top metallic layer on a chip and the coating ...

For instance, pressing on a thin film of this material generates a voltage ... The result is that the material breaks up into polar nanodomains—tiny clusters no bigger than a small virus ...

Definition: Thin films are critical layers of material, from a few nanometers to several micrometers thick, deployed across technology, electronics, and energy sectors. Their importance lies in their ...