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Advanced imaging reveals a detailed understanding of the mechanisms driving a previously misunderstood material, researchers say.

Atoms measure roughly 0.1 nanometers across, a scale so small that scientists spent more than six decades developing ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass, which can store two million books' worth ...

Researchers at TU Wien in Vienna have created a QR code so small it can only be read with an electron microscope. The code measures roughly 1.98 square micrometers, with individual pixels about 49 ...

Light can hit a lead halide perovskite crystal that is anything but pristine and still end up as useful electric current.

In a new study 'Flexoelectric domain walls enable charge separation and transport in cubic perovskites' published in Nature Communications, physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that self-assembled phosphorus chains can host genuinely one-dimensional electron ...

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Despite being riddled with impurities and defects, solution-processed lead-halide perovskites are surprisingly efficient at ...