One of the latest findings from Levitas and his collaborators is that silicon, an important material for electronics, has unusual phase transformations when it is pressed and sheared with large ...

A team of international scientists headed by Prof. Marco Salvalaglio from TUD–Dresden University of Technology has found out ...

Iowa State's Valery Levitas and his collaborators have used pressure with a twisting shear to permanently deform silicon, an important material for electronics. The resulting changes in silicon ...

When Valery Levitas left Europe in 1999, he packed up a rotational diamond anvil cell and brought it to the United States. He and the researchers in his group are still using a much-advanced version ...

AMES, Iowa – When Valery Levitas left Europe in 1999, he packed up a rotational diamond anvil cell and brought it to the United States.. He and the researchers in his group are still using a ...

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 ...