Quantum engineers have spent years trying to tame the fragility of qubits, only to be thwarted by the tiniest imperfections ...

Wafer breakage is the most serious impact of killer crystalline defects. About 0.1 to 0.2% of silicon wafers break. The ...

Across the physical world, many intricate structures form via symmetry breaking. When a system with inherent symmetry ...

Researchers at Chungnam National University have developed a deep learning method that predicts stable defect configurations in nematic liquid crystals in milliseconds rather than hours. This rapid ...

The AI model rapidly maps boundary conditions to molecular alignment and defect locations, replacing hours of simulation and ...

A new hybrid layered perovskite featuring elusive spontaneous defect ordering has been found, report scientists. By introducing specific concentrations of thiocyanate ions into FAPbI3 (FA = ...

The study of curvature effects on crystal structures and defect dynamics offers pivotal insights into how geometric constraints influence material properties at the micro‐ and nanoscale. Curved ...

These newly discovered spinning crystals twist, break, and heal themselves, revealing a strange new side of solid matter.

Researchers announced that they have achieved the world's first elucidation of how hydrogen produces free electrons through ...

(Nanowerk News) Perovskites are among the most extensively studied materials in modern materials science. Their often unique and exotic properties, which stem from perovskite’s peculiar crystal ...