A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

These crystals are high quality structures, as confirmed by a combination of characterisation techniques, including polarised optical and scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, polarised ...

Single-crystal semiconductors have been at the forefront of scientific interest for more than 70 years, serving as the backbone of electronic devices. Inorganic single crystals are typically grown ...

New technology could revolutionize printed electronics by enabling high quality semiconducting molecular crystals to be directly spray-deposited on any surface. University of Surrey and National ...

Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

Minerals are generally inorganic, naturally occurring solids (though we humans have had a stab at creating our own in the lab) that have a specific chemical composition and atomic structure.

Heating an insecticide can give it new life. Microwaving the insecticide deltamethrin rearranges its crystal structure but doesn’t change its chemical composition. The rearrangement renews ...

With crystals the size of around 100 nanometers, which is similar to one eight-hundredth of a human hair, automated diffraction tomography is often the only way by which the structure can be fully ...

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...

Single crystal semiconductors, such as silicon, have been at the forefront of scientific interest for more than 70 years, serving as the backbone of electronic devices.

Posted: Nov 22, 2016: Spray-printed crystals to move forward organic electronic applications (Nanowerk News) Has the time come to replace traditionally used silicon with printable organic ...