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

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar systems. Their unique properties come from their atomic structure, but that ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. This comprehensive scientific history presents for the first time a detailed and comprehensive study of the Bohr atom in all its ...