Diamond Hill Mine in Abbeville, South Carolina, turns the whole family into treasure hunters, and the crystals you find are ...

The role of the SiO2/SiC interface in SiC transistors, focusing on the lattice defects and chemical challenges that impact performance. The dominance of Si in electronics is largely due to its “native ...

David Boyce and his class at Queenswood school in the UK are growing what they’re calling the world’s largest single crystal of copper sulfate. The crystal weighs around 3kg so far and has taken over ...

† School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore ‡ Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science, Nanyang Technological University, 50 ...

Abstract: The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation was performed for Cu-Si and Cu-SiO 2 nano-metric grinding models. The grinding depth and speed were considered to investigate influence of them in ...

A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and quantum physics, researchers uncovered its bizarre ability to maintain ...

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These range from the miniaturization and efficiency of electronic devices to ...

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a photopumped lasing from a buried dielectric ...

Look at the cubic pyrite crystals. It’s almost hard to believe something like that is natural. Image via Wiki Commons. Crystals are solid substances where atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a ...

Composite materials that combine quantum dots and photonic crystals can produce some complex anti-counterfeiting patterns, which solves the problems of simple encoded information and low ...

Abstract: Through silicon via (TSV) is a core technology in 3-D integration. Interface failure is one of the most noted failure forms of TSV. The barrier layer Ta, which is between the media Cu and ...