While Boyce’s crystal may be the largest single crystal of copper sulfate, students at the Kurfrüst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium in Germany hold the record for overall size. Their polymorphic crystal reached a ...

There's been a lot of justifiable interest in silicon- and MEMS-based oscillators, in place of the venerable quartz-crystal structure. But the reality is that the quartz oscillator embodiment is still ...

A crystal is a solid in which constituent molecules or atoms are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern, distinct from the arrangement of atoms in an amorphous solid. The surface geometry of a ...

Time crystals are probably one of the most fascinating recent discoveries in physics. We know what a regular crystal is – a ...