The single crystals currently used in semiconductors, electronic devices, and optical devices can't take the heat. This is ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered how crystals are made? Crystals come in all different shapes and sizes. The purest and cleanest crystals, however, are usually also the ones that grow to be the ...

Researchers led by Genki Kobayashi at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan have discovered a way to max out ...

Mislabeled, lab-grown, and made from plastic—fakes abound in the crystals industry. Who’s going to do anything about it?

Photonic time crystals are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties remain uniform in space but change periodically over time. Unlike regular crystals that have repeating patterns in ...

A liquid crystal source of photon pairs Date: June 14, 2024 Source: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Summary: Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), as a source of entangled ...

Months after physicists made a self-standing time crystal, they've made one that works at room temperature, expanding the real-world uses of the quantum matter.

One crystal even glowed a bright lime green under UV light from adding highlighter fluid during the growing process. “I’m pretty blown away actually when I see some of these things,” Jason Benedict, ...