One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from ...

For more than a century, scientists have relied on crystallography—analyzing X-ray diffraction patterns—to uncover ...

Its uniform structure allowed precise diffraction patterns to emerge, reinforcing the idea that even the thinnest barriers ...

Researchers have identified antiferromagnetism in a real icosahedral quasicrystal, reigniting interest in the quest to ...

Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding question whether antiferromagnetism, while commonly found in regular crystals, is ...

Description: Electron diffraction patterns for single crystal and polycrystalline materials are displayed on a CRT screen. A Welch model 2639 'Electron Diffraction tube' is used in an experiment in ...

It involves the interaction of a beam of electrons with a crystalline sample, resulting in a diffraction pattern that provides information about the arrangement of atoms within the material. This ...

When a laser beam is incident on many small objects such as lycopodium powder, the resulting diffraction pattern is similar to the diffraction pattern of a small circular aperture (Airy's disk pattern ...

Captured here is a laser diffraction pattern, visible as a series of concentric circles with a bright central area. This pattern is a result of light waves spreading out and overlapping after passing ...