In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns ...

A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic ...

What was discovered: Scientists observed that electron crystals in metals can deform and melt like solids, disrupting their ordered patterns. Why it matters: Manipulating these structures could enable ...

MIT researchers uncover a hidden 3D atomic structure in relaxor ferroelectrics using electron ptychography, resolving a ...

Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has ...

What is Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)? Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), also known as backscatter Kikuchi diffraction (BKD), is a powerful characterization technique used to analyze ...

For the first time, researchers directly characterized the 3D atomic structure of a relaxor ferroelectric, a class of ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2024.230184 , discusses tailoring electron vortex beams with customizable intensity patterns by electron diffraction holography. In ...

Accelerator-based high-energy electron diffraction determines 3D atomic structure of materials New method using ultrashort ...

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar ...