Materials scientists at Rice University have developed a new workflow methodology for measuring microscopic defects in ...

Many displays found in smartphones and televisions rely on thin-film transistors (TFTs) made from indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) to control pixels. IGZO offers high transparency due to its large ...

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) provides valuable information on the structure and electronic states of materials. Its spectral profiles are complex, influenced by crystal structure and defects, ...

Thus, colloidal crystals could, in principle, be used as model systems to examine structure–property–processing relationships involved in microstructural evolution by optically tracking the positions ...

Quantum engineers have spent years trying to tame the fragility of qubits, only to be thwarted by the tiniest imperfections in the materials they use. Now a new line of research flips that problem on ...

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 structure, could find ...

The true nature of a representative 'killer defect' that lowers the yield of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The petrochemical industry relies on separating chemicals that differ by just fractions of a nanometer in size. Methanol must be purified from similarly-sized molecules in the ...