Adding zinc ions to lithium niobate crystals cuts the energy needed for polarization switching by 69%, enabling visible-light programming of memristors for brain-inspired computing.

The fusion of mid-infrared laser technologies with zinc selenide crystals has forged a promising frontier in photonics. Zinc selenide, renowned for its excellent optical clarity, thermal stability and ...

Insights into atomic-scale defects may enable next-generation thin-film transistors for smartphones, televisions, and flexible electronics. (Nanowerk News) Many displays found in smartphones and ...

SERVI 1 showed complex spirals on the basal plane of cleaved zinc crystals after etching, and spiral terraced etch pits have been obtained on zinc crystals 2 grown from vapour using ‘Superoxol’ etch.

What better way to demonstrate new crystallization techniques than to make snowflakes? But instead of making delicate crystals of water, researchers from the University of New South Wales, the ...

The zinc-bonded polyacrylic acid layer prevents corrosion, undesirable side reactions and dendritic growth on zinc-anodes, stabilizing the anode surface and leading to improved cycling performance and ...

Using hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, researchers revealed how oxygen vacancies and structural disorder influence subgap state formation. The figure shows the InGaZnO 4 crystal structure, the ...