A Möbius strip has a peculiar geometry, but anyone can make one with a strip of paper. Put a half-twist in the strip and tape its ends together, and a single-surface curiosity is born. Making a Möbius ...

SELENIUM single crystals have been grown in this Laboratory from the vapour phase by the method used by Brown 1 and de Boer 2. Although the needles, which had a regular prismatic appearance, were ...

Scientists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in frames of academic mobility between China and Russia together with colleagues from Qiqihar University grew "defective" crystals of tin ...

Crystals are supposed to be hard-edged and well-ordered—think diamond—but Japanese researchers have amazed their colleagues by growing crystals shaped like a ring, a figure eight (right), or a Möbius ...

For the first time, researchers have combined a novel synthesis process with commercial electron-beam lithography techniques to produce arrays of semiconductor junctions in arbitrary patterns within a ...

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A team used a simple process to implant atoms precisely into the top layers of ultra-thin crystals, yielding two-sided structures with different chemical compositions. The resulting materials, known ...