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In the field of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) method has developed into a robust tool for the crystallographic analysis of materials. Specifically, ...

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 ...

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

A pattern of distorted lines is visible as a reflection in this close-up view of a human eye. By observing the deformation of illumination patterns reflected off the eye's surface, researchers in ...