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

A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic ...

Accelerator-based high-energy electron diffraction determines 3D atomic structure of materials New method using ultrashort ...

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For decades, relaxor ferroelectrics have powered everything from medical ultrasounds to sonar systems, yet their inner atomic ...

Hollow atoms are special atoms with multiple missing electrons in their inner shells, while their outer shells are still fully or partially filled with electrons. Studying the production mechanisms, ...

In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a ...

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 ...

Researchers have combined theory and experiments to show that nuclear polarization does not limit studies of muonic atoms, clearing the way for new nuclear physics experiments. University of ...