A team of researchers including scientists from the U of A's Department Physics have discovered the atomic configuration of two-atom-thick paraelectric materials. "Ferroelectric materials are all ...

Density functional theory (DFT) has been a critical component of computational materials research and discovery for decades. However, the computational cost of solving the central Kohn–Sham equation ...

This study presents an efficient method for automatically identifying the crystal structure and orientation of Y-doped HfO 2-based thin films using deep learning. This approach enables large-scale ...

The intermediate range order of covalent glasses has been extensively studied in terms of the first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP), but the direct observation of the atomic density fluctuations that ...

In materials science, particularly in the study of glasses, the intermediate range order (IRO) is one of the most intriguing research areas owing to its significant influence over the physical ...