An international team has succeeded in producing new, efficient thermoelectric materials that could compete with state-of-the-art materials, offering greater stability and lower cost.

Newly published research demonstrates a novel way of generating phonon-polaritons by making electrons collide with crystal lattice structures. The discovery paves the way for cheaper, smaller long ...

Sodium Chloride is an alkali halide with an fcc crystal structure. The basis is two ions, a sodium cation and a chlorine anion. The crystal lattice parameter is 0.563 nm. The diagram shows both a unit ...

Zinc sulphide exists with two different crystal structures, the cubic zinc blend (top diagram) and the hexagonal Wurtzite (lower diagram). In the zinc blend structure the sulphur ions form an fcc ...

One way of creating a time crystal is to knock some of the carbon atoms out of the crystal lattice of diamond, creating what is known as a nitrogen-vacancy center, which is a neighboring nitrogen atom ...

which contain information about the local crystal structure, symmetry, and strain. CBED is highly sensitive to small changes in the atomic arrangement and is often used for precise lattice parameter ...

This created lattice strain, that prevented rubidium from forming unwanted secondary phases and kept it integrated within the crystal structure. To validate their approach, the researchers used X ...