One application might help build better electronics. Electronics manufacturers such as Nitronex Corporation, which donated the piezoelectric materials used in the study, make devices grown out of gallium nitride (GaN) and aluminum nitride (AlN), which are grown on a substrate and consist of layers of very thin films.
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