Perfect Faults: A Self-Correcting Crystal May Unleash the Next Generation of Advanced Communications (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Perfect Faults: A Self-Correcting Crystal May Unleash the Next Generation of Advanced Communications

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Not a brick wall. Electron microscope image of a cross section of the newly characterized tunable microwave dielectric clearly shows the thick layers of strontium titanate "bricks" separated by thin "mortar lines" of strontium oxide that help promote the largely defect-free growth of the bricks.

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TEM image courtesy David Mueller. Color added for clarity by Nathan Orloff.

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