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

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

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 ...

Since humans started using metals, metallurgists and smiths have tweaked and controlled the properties of their materials ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...