Studying the properties of nickel ferrite will help create the microelectronics of the future

Specialists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Joint Institute of High Temperatures (JIHT) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with colleagues from Taiwan and Indonesia, have studied the structure-sensitive properties of nickel ferrite.

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The researchers found that the properties of this material can change due to the presence of point defects in the structure of the compound. Due to this nickel ferrite - a promising material for spintronics and the production of chips resistive memory, told "Izvestia" in MIPT. The research results will be useful for the development of fast and non-volatile electronic devices.

It can be expected that complex calculations of the electronic structure of nickel ferrite and similar materials, made by a group of Russian and foreign scientists, will contribute to the development of fast electronic devices, experts emphasized.

The research opens the way to the creation of non-volatile resistive memory chips, where conductivity is controlled through the formation of conductive filaments, said Vasily Chaly, a laboratory assistant at the NTI Competence Center "Digital Materials Science: New Materials and Substances" at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

"Such devices combine RAM performance and data storage reliability, which makes them promising for use in car electronics, wearable gadgets, as well as in Internet of Things systems and other power-dependent applications where resistance to extreme conditions is important," he noted.

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