Photonic crystals are periodic optical structures that can control the flow ... prevent an optical beam from propagating through the crystal. Photonic crystal devices can therefore force light ...

The team observed how crystals transition from disorganized “amorphous blobs” into ordered structures. During this process, they discovered a novel, rod-shaped crystal named “Zangenite.” “ ...

In training, the AI learned to pair poorly resolved diffraction data with the most probable atomic arrangements, witnessing myriad crystal structures throughout the training and reconstructing ...

"The algorithm used its knowledge of thousands of unrelated structures to augment the diffraction data." To apply the technique to crystallography, the scientists began with a dataset of 40,000 ...