Science news articles about 'disordered materials'

The Holy Grail for transistor designers has been the requirement to be able to get high performance at reduced costs over very large substrate areas. Transistors on cheap and flexible substrates like ...

... have discovered that nanosized regions with local polarizations, or "electric dipoles," in a special class of otherwise disordered materials may underlie these materials' extreme electromechanical response ...

... and his colleagues are interested in using so-called disordered material to create lasers that could increase our understanding of physics - as well as make the laser creation process ...

... and void structures of a network-forming elemental material. These tools may revolutionize the process of creating new ... tools. Beginning in the 1970s and '80s, amorphous or disordered materials were found to exhibit technologically viable properties ...

... losing much of it. Random laser materials, in contrast, are disordered and lose some light. Or as Vardeny puts ... . The New Study: Order within a Disordered Material In conventional lasers, cavities are created by carefully ...

... , showed that hysteresis in these nanoscale materials is directly related to the collective behavior of their disordered structures. These behaviors ... theories behind the "quanta of nonlinearity" and properties of disordered materials. This work is funded by DOE Basic ...

... out to match the actual electronic properties of noncrystalline materials with great precision, the researchers say. The research is being reported ... author of the report, says that finding this novel approach to simulating the electronic properties of “disordered materials” — those that lack ...

... demonstrate in our experiments that the photons' path through the material is not independent from the other photons," explains David Garc ... way to measure the spatial properties of complex disordered materials, like biological tissue, and since ...