Watching the Hidden Life of Materials

Monday, October 27, 2014 - 14:40 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers at McGill University have succeeded in simultaneously observing the reorganizations of atomic positions and electron distribution during the transformation of the "smart material" vanadium dioxide from a semiconductor into a metal - in a timeframe a trillion times faster than the blink of an eye.

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