While SiC offers benefits to designers and consumers, its manufacturing is substantially more expensive than silicon.

Scientists uncovered rare hexagonal silicon forms (2H, 4H, 6H) created by stress and heat, challenging assumptions about this key electronic material.

All-perovskite tandem solar cells (TSCs) are a class of solar cells comprised of two or more sub-cells that absorb light with ...

Abstract: Design, fabrication and light guiding in planar photonic crystal structures including sharp corners with a bending radius less than 1 micron are demonstrated at 1550 nm wavelength in silicon ...

The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...

Crystals don't always grow the way we thought. A team of researchers has just discovered a new type of crystal that shatters ...

With the declared aim of measuring matter under extreme pressure, an international research collaboration headed by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) used ...

As power electronics evolve, many designers are making the shift from silicon (Si) to silicon carbide (SiC) to take advantage of higher efficiency, faster switching speeds, and improved thermal ...

Charge transfer, or the movement of electrons, can occur either within a molecule or between two molecules. Combining the two types of charge transfer is challenging. Now, scientists have developed a ...

They discover that the topological properties of quasicrystals come from periodic patterns in 4D, revolutionizing optics and ...