Professor Martijn Kemerink of Linköping University has worked with colleagues in Spain and the Netherlands to develop the first material with conductivity properties that can be switched on and off using ferroelectric polarisation.
The phenomenon can be used for small and flexible digital memories of the future, and for completely new types of solar cells.
In an article published in the scientific journal Science Advances, the research group shows the phenomenon in action in three specially built molecules, and proposes a model for how it works.
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