Flash-freezing reveals how cooling speed shapes silicon crystal layers, offering insights into defect-free growth for semiconductors and mirroring early-universe transitions. (Nanowerk News) Solar ...

Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international collaboration led by NIST researchers has revealed previously unrecognized ...

Scientists have used pressure with a twisting shear to permanently deform silicon, an important material for electronics. The resulting changes in silicon's microstructure produce material phases that ...

Surface reflectance is a measure of how much of the incident light is reflected by a given surface. For optical applications driven by the absorption of light, minimizing surface reflectance is ...