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

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

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

MIT-led researchers have, for the first time, directly mapped the 3D atomic and polar structure of relaxor ferroelectrics, materials critical to sensors and energy devices. Using multi-slice electron ...

What is Atom Probe Tomography? Atom Probe Tomography (APT) is a powerful analytical technique that provides three-dimensional (3D) imaging and chemical composition analysis of materials at the atomic ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

(Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max ...

A research team from Seoul National University College of Engineering has developed a technology to observe atomic structural changes of nanoparticles in three dimensions. Their study, which resolves ...

Atomic and molecular structure as a research area investigates the spatial arrangement, electronic configuration, and intrinsic quantum properties of atoms and molecules, and how these features ...