At temperatures greater than 1350 °C, solid-state reaction of titania and alumina leads to the synthesis of aluminum titanate. Depending on its reactivity, the synthesized powder can be sintered at ...

Strontium titanate was once used as a diamond substitute in jewelry before less fragile alternatives emerged in the 1970s. Now, researchers have explored some of its more unusual properties, which ...

Strontium titanate (SrTiO 3) has a perovskite structure like CaTiO 3, the mineral from which the name was derived. At room temperature it exists in thew cubic form, but transforms into the tetragonal ...

At 4 degrees Kelvin, most electro-optic materials falter. Nanoelectronics R&D center imec has now successfully engineered thin-film strontium titanate (SrTiO ₃) that delivers record electro-optic ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has reported a novel synthesis strategy that enables the direct intercalation of a wide ...

The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice. Researchers achieved this by creating ...

The death of four people in a Chinatown fire caused by exploding e-bike lithium-ion batteries is just the latest tragedy from these devices. While efforts to mitigate the lithium-ion risks being ...

A configuration that shows great promise in sensing applications is vertically aligned piezoelectric nanowire arrays that allow facile interfacing with electrical interconnects. Nano-electromechanical ...

If you want to be an engineer of the future, in many fields that means getting comfortable with cold—extreme cold. Many superconducting materials, for example, require temperatures near zero kelvin to ...

Quantum computers and detectors run at temperatures close to absolute zero. In these extreme conditions, even the best room temperature materials struggle to control light efficiently. This feature is ...