‘Impossible’ low-loss, tunable dielectric achieved in microwave electronics

‘Impossible’ low-loss, tunable dielectric achieved in microwave electronics

The result on his computer screen looked impossible. Late one night in 2009, Nate Orloff was alone in a laboratory, analyzing measurements from a set of experimental thin films sent to him by Darrell Schlom, the Tisch University Professor in Cornell University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering.