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Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of “rotating crystals” — solids made of spinning particles that behave in ...

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It sounds bizarre, but they exist: crystals made of rotating objects. Physicists from Aachen, Düsseldorf, Mainz and Wayne State (Detroit, U.S.) have jointly studied these exotic objects and their ...

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Abstract: To solve the size limitation of traditional electromagnetically excited low-frequency antennas, a Z-cut quartz piezoelectric acoustically excited antenna (PAEA) is proposed in this paper.

Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, 930 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States Macromolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of Michigan, 930 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...