Program Highlights by Type

July 12, 2010
University of Colorado
Industry
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal on Silicon-Based Picoprojectors

Picoprojection is the latest advanced display technology enabled by ferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon microdisplays, developed by LCMRC spin-off company, industrial partner, and collaborator Displaytech, now a division of Micron, Inc.. LCMRC researchers pursue new liquid crystal materials and alignment systems enabling low power consumption bistable liquid crystal switching.

May 26, 2010
University of Maryland
Research, Industry
Fabrication of a Non-volatile Multiferroic Memory Device

Micron-sized non-volatile magnetoresistance devices are being pursued using ferroelectric/magnetostrictive multilayers. Previously, we have demonstrated reversible ferroelastic domains in PZT ferroelctric bilyaers (Adv. Materials 21, 3497 (2009)). In such bilayers, different elastic states can be achieved through reversible twin boundary motions induced by small voltage pulses. The elastic states are used to tune magnetic anisotropy in FeGa layer.