93.5% efficiency: New lattice-strained perovskite solar cells achieve record stability
The approach stabilizes rubidium in wide-bandgap perovskites, minimizing non-radiative recombination and pushing efficiency to new heights.
Twisted crystals open door to smaller, more powerful sensors for optical devices
Twisted moiré photonic crystals—an advanced type of optical metamaterial—have shown enormous potential in the race to ...
Crystal melting and the glass transition obey the same physical law
The melting of crystals is the process by which an increase in temperature induces the disruption of the ordered crystalline ...
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Physicists Create New Type of Time Quasicrystal – Inside a Diamond
quartz, and salt take the form of three-dimensional atomic lattices, where the arrangement of the particles therein repeats. You can take any section of the lattice and superimpose it over another and ...
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Quartz crystals on Mars could preserve signs of ancient life
Pure quartz crystals have been spotted on Mars for the first time, as well as other gems like opal. Researchers say these crystals, as well as being evidence of past hydrothermal activity ...
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Tailoring Phonon Polaritons with a Single-Layer Photonics-Empowered Polaritonic Crystal
Macao Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (MIMSE), Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macao 999078, China Macau University of Science and ...
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Scientists Just Found a Mind-Bending Way to Control Electrons
Two twisted boron nitride layers (blue and pink) create a crystal lattice at a distance in which electrons (gold) can arrange themselves in a regular pattern. Credit: Natasha Kiper / ETH Zurich ...