Under the right circumstances, electrons can actually “freeze” into a bizarre solid form. Now, physicists at Berkeley Lab ...

Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter of 0.543 nm. The nearest neighbor distance is 0.235 nm. The diamond cubic crystal structure has an fcc lattice with a basis of ...

Researchers have taken direct images of the Wigner molecular crystal, a new quantum phase of an electron solid. The ...

In fact, the only thing needed to make them is iron and nitrogen, plus an understanding of crystal structure and some ... The more complex iron nitride α”-Fe 16 N 2 was first discovered in ...

The GaN wafer’s unique crystal structure is key to its dual functionality ... nobody has made active devices on both sides, ...

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...

Achieving the auto industry’s stringent zero defect goals is becoming a big challenge for makers of silicon carbide substrates ... which looks at the crystal structures of devices. Finding defects ...

Nanomaterials are materials with at least one external dimension that measures 100 nanometers (nm) or less or with internal structures measuring 100 ... Semiconductor nanowires made of silicon, ...

Several vendors are rolling out the next wave of power semiconductors based on gallium nitride (GaN ... source-gate-drain structure. Trench forms a “U shape” vertical gate channel. “At the device ...

Electrons typically travel at high speeds, zipping through matter unbound. In the 1930s, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted ...