A technique to control where atomically thin semiconductor crystals begin growing, potentially enabling high-quality stacked ...

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, only a few atomic layers thick, are promising materials for making AI chips faster and ...

Researchers have developed a new method to improve the efficiency and durability of perovskite ...

Researchers have developed an etching-flux technique that forces single-crystal 2D semiconductors to nucleate deterministically at pattern centres, enabling high-mobility transistors and self-aligned ...

Semiconductor crystals in thin films grow from tiny nuclei, and where and how many of these nuclei form strongly influence the size, uniformity and other properties of the crystal. A leading approach, ...

A new method to grow single crystals and simultaneously control their growth orientation without melt processing has been discovered by Texas A&M University materials science and engineering doctoral ...

Crystals are supposed to be the very embodiment of order, yet some of the most striking examples of crystalline behavior are shapes that seem to defy it: ribbons that spiral like corkscrews, needles ...

Remember that old high school chemistry experiment where salt crystals precipitate out of a saltwater solution—or maybe the one where rock candy crystals form from sugar water? It turns out that your ...

In advanced metallurgy, semiconductor manufacturing, and aerospace component production, single crystal furnaces and directional solidification furnaces are two core thermal processing equipment. Both ...