Study identifies high-performance alternative to conventional ferroelectrics

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-high-alternative-conventional-ferroelectrics.html#

"piezoelectricity trades between mechanical stress and electric charge... at submicrometer scale substrate  interferes degrading performance, solved using antiferroelectric lead zirconate producing electromechanical response up to 5X greater (clamping now doesn't interfere with performance, but enhances it)...  smaller, more powerful, energy efficient electromechanical devices or microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)/ nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) that can do things we never thought possible before"