As we witness the detrimental effects of climate change, the need for a rapid shift to renewable energy is only becoming more ...

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Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

There’s poetry in a name like ‘Markram’. A rare palindrome, it reads the same forwards and backwards, just like the career of ...

Scientists found a new type of magnetism in a crystal called nickel iodide. This magnetism creates spiral patterns at the ...

Theoretical analysis also showed that the coexistence of two magnetic atoms, Cr and V, led to central inversion symmetry breaking and induced strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI ...

State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies for Microfabrication, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China Division of Frontier Science and Technology, ...

Symmetry, or balance, is an integral part of designing a room for a number of reasons. As The Interior Editor explains, when a space is symmetrical, it feels calming and comfortable. Additionally, ...

Microscopic aspects of ferroelectricity are canonically related to polar atomic displacements that break inversion symmetry of the crystal, leading to a non-zero net electric dipole moment.

To break the current limits of efficiency, new principles of light-electricity conversion are needed. For instance, many materials that exhibit efficient optoelectronic properties are constrained by ...