Exotic, 2D Materials Could Resurrect Hard Drive Look Out

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Exotic, 2D Materials Could Resurrect the Hard Drive Look out, flash memory—low-power, instant-on computing newly possible
For about a decade, a range of materials known as “multiferroics” has been promising to lead the way to the ultimate memory device, or, at the very least, the ultimate replacement to flash memory. Multiferroics are materials with two or more coexisting ferroic orders, such as ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism. The term “ferroic” is the material property in which a material’s electrons can be collectively switched by an external field, such as switching the orientation of their charge or magnetic spin.