These defects can significantly impact strength, toughness, and ductility. Understanding how dislocations form and their behavior is essential for improving the reliability of 3D-printed parts. “By ...

Crystallographic defects include grain boundaries, micropipes, threading screw dislocations (TSDs), threading edge dislocations (TEDs), stacking faults, and Basal plane dislocations (BPDs). In SiC, ...

While improvements in SiC crystal growth techniques have recently been made, managing crystallographic defect occurrences is still a significant challenge. Defects like dislocations and stacking ...

An international team of researchers, led by University of Toronto Engineering Professor Yu Zou, is using electric fields to control the motion of material defects. This work has important ...

Jun 26, 2023: Using electric fields to control the movement of defects in crystals (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers, led by Professor Yu Zou (MSE), is using electric fields to ...

Renishaw reports on the use of its inVia confocal Raman microscope in the characterization of power semiconductor materials such as 4H-SiC. Kwansei Gakuin University is situated in the Hyogo ...

The true crystal forms of pharmaceutical psilocybin have been revealed for the first time. Research published today solves the crystallographic puzzle and brings new clarity to the unique ...

The annual Spring Meeting of the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) brings together chemical, biological, physical, industrial and early stage crystallographers and structural scientists. The ...