KAIST researchers imaged hafnium zirconium oxide memory films switching by two processes at once, with new polarized domains forming while existing ones grew. A model tying that picture to device electrical data offers a basis for tuning write speed and uniformity, though the account reports no switching times.
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- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence48
Chemists baked the sodium out of sodium boride to make Imma-B60, a porous boron that conducts about 10 million times better than the common form. Its flexibility figure is shakier, given in the same report as both 23% and 32% strain, the higher from compressing nanopillars.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
A deposit at customs bills the importer, and Chinese memory makers are the first to feel it. The qualification calendar runs months, so they cannot buy their way out of it this quarter.
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- Evidence72
- Adoption55
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives65
- Confidence68
Two years and more than 30 lawsuits in, the audit committee vote leaves Chairman Choi with a majority either way, which is why the October call option inside the Young Poong-MBK alliance is the term worth reading.
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- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives78
- Confidence54
The Department of War and a Pinnacle-managed fund are putting in $400 million each, which keeps the only US smelter-grade alumina plant running and pays for a gallium pilot that is still in testing and promising first metal this fall.
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- Evidence30
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives80
- Confidence45
China's export licence list, not fab capacity or megawatts, is what set the 2026 tungsten price. The arithmetic behind the gas that deposits the metal is smaller than most capex plans assume.
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- Evidence22
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives65
- Confidence30
A University of Minnesota team synthesized semiconductor-quality iron sulfide straight from Iron Range taconite, which puts the purity floor in the process rather than the mine.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives62
- Confidence44