While Boyce’s crystal may be the largest single crystal of copper sulfate, students at the Kurfrüst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium in Germany hold the record for overall size. Their polymorphic crystal reached a ...

Researchers in the United States have developed a new technique that can spot hidden ...

Future devices will continue to probe the frontier of the very small, and at scales where functionality depends on mere atoms, even the tiniest flaw matters. Researchers at Rice University have shown ...

Researchers have shown that hard-to-spot defects in a widely used two-dimensional insulator can trap electrical charges and locally weaken the material, making it more likely to fail at lower voltages ...

Researchers in the United States have developed a way to detect hidden defects in ultra-thin electronic materials that can cause devices to fail at lower voltages.

Future devices will continue to probe the frontier of the very small, and at scales where functionality depends on mere ...

Data center AI is driving a dramatic ramp in the growth of silicon photonics foundries: 8X growth in just 6 years, from 2026 to 2032. Scale-out is the major driver now. Scale-up will become the ...

Every crystal's shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of its molecules, but the molecules in photoswitchable crystals can expand, twist and change properties—from their color to their ...

Tiny crystal “seeds” could solve a hidden flaw in perovskite solar cells—unlocking high efficiency at larger scales.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born in a colossal cosmic crash. New research suggests Titan formed when two older moons slammed together hundreds of millions of years ago—an event so ...

Wolfspeed has produced a single crystal 300mm silicon carbide wafer, an advancement that marks the next stage in the development of silicon carbide technology. The company, which holds over 2,300 ...