Adding zinc ions to lithium niobate crystals cuts the energy needed for polarization switching by 69%, enabling visible-light programming of memristors for brain-inspired computing.

The fusion of mid-infrared laser technologies with zinc selenide crystals has forged a promising frontier in photonics. Zinc selenide, renowned for its excellent optical clarity, thermal stability and ...

Using hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, researchers revealed how oxygen vacancies and structural disorder influence subgap state formation. The figure shows the InGaZnO 4 crystal structure, the ...

What better way to demonstrate new crystallization techniques than to make snowflakes? But instead of making delicate crystals of water, researchers from the University of New South Wales, the ...

The phenomenon of thermal hardening was first observed by Orowan 1 2 in single crystals of chemically pure zinc. He noticed that, sometimes, zinc crystals, after resting for 24–48 hours at room ...

(Nanowerk News) Zinc-air batteries are an inexpensive, powerful battery alternative that can be used on the small scale to power electronics or on the large scale for electric vehicles or energy ...

The zinc-bonded polyacrylic acid layer prevents corrosion, undesirable side reactions and dendritic growth on zinc-anodes, stabilizing the anode surface and leading to improved cycling performance and ...