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Volume 18 Issue 4, April 2019

A polar supercrystal

Upon ultrafast irradiation, a (PbTiO3)/(SrTiO3) superlattice transforms into a complex supercrystal that contains periodicities of up to 30 nm in size and is stable in ambient. Creation and destruction, by heating, of the supercrystal is reversible.

See Stoica et al. and Gregg News & Views.

Image: Xiaoxing Cheng, Penn State. Cover Design: David Shand

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