In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns ...

Fundamentals of electron diffraction -- Relation between crystal lattice, stereographic projection and reciprocal lattice -- Indexing polycrystalline and single-crystal patterns -- Orientation ...

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

What is Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)? Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), also known as backscatter Kikuchi diffraction (BKD), is a powerful characterization technique used to analyze ...

Accelerator-based high-energy electron diffraction determines 3D atomic structure of materials New method using ultrashort ...

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 ...

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar ...

Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has ...

In geology, electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is a powerful tool for the observation and analysis of microstructures and for phase identification. The EBSD system, by Oxford Instruments, ...