Skoltech and MIPT researchers have sped up the search for high-performance metal alloys for the aerospace industry, ...

Even though emeralds and rubies are very different colors, they both have the same secret ingredient in their atomic ...

A major development has just struck the photovoltaic industry: perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells. Photovoltaic cells — or solar cells — are, of course, devices that convert sunlight into ...

One feature of compounds made with transition metals is their intense colour. There are many examples in nature, including ...

Chipmakers turn to silicon for its crystal structure, which can be lightly salted with trivalent or pentavalent ions to produce semiconductor materials with subtly different behavior on a quantum ...

Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...

Engineers are moving from silicon-based solutions to wide-band gap ones Credit ... GaN is a compound that’s made up of gallium and nitrogen and its Wurtzite crystal structure is both very strong and ...

T oday, silicon photonic circuits connect server racks and play key roles in chemical sensors, biosensors, and LIDAR for self ...

Active Surfaces says its thin, flexible solar collectibles can be attached not just to roofs, but walls, tents, backpacks, ...

Through materials science, we can tailor existing substances or engineer completely novel materials to generate new and ...