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As this animation shows, polaronic distortions start very small and rapidly expand outward in all directions to a diameter of...
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An illustration shows polarons – fleeting distortions in a material’s atomic lattice ––in a promising next-generation energy material, lead hybrid perovskite.
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VIA Stanford News
Stanford physicist’s quest for the perfect keys to unlock the mysteries of superconductivity
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Researchers used SLAC’s ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) as an electron camera to take snapshots of a three-atom-thick layer of a promising material as it...