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

For decades, a class of materials critical to modern electronics operated with a level of mystery at their core. Now, ...

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

For the first time, researchers directly characterized the 3D atomic structure of a relaxor ferroelectric, a class of ...

Researchers from MIT and collaborating institutions have, for the first time, directly measured the ...

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

MIT researchers uncover a hidden 3D atomic structure in relaxor ferroelectrics using electron ptychography, resolving a ...

The growing popularity of electronic devices—from fitness trackers and laptops to smartphones—is driving demand for more ...

"Atomic spray painting” of potassium niobate, a material commonly used in advanced electronics onto a substrate, could enable the tuning of properties of the resulting thin film, according to a new ...

Depth profiling techniques constitute a fundamental analytical approach in material science, enabling researchers to characterise the composition, structure and interfacial properties of complex ...

Traditionally, analyzing materials involved techniques tailored for specific scales, which made integrating data from these different methods quite challenging. However, recent advancements in ...