{"id":236461,"date":"2026-05-04T06:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/hidden-3d-atomic-structure-of-relaxor-ferroelectrics-revealed-for-first-time"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:13:32","slug":"hidden-3d-atomic-structure-of-relaxor-ferroelectrics-revealed-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/hidden-3d-atomic-structure-of-relaxor-ferroelectrics-revealed-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Hidden 3D atomic structure of relaxor ferroelectrics revealed for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-3d-atomic-structure-of-relaxor-ferroelectrics-revealed-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar systems. Their unique properties come from their atomic structure, but that structure has stubbornly eluded direct measurement.<\/p>\n<p>Now a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has directly characterized the three-dimensional atomic structure of a relaxor ferroelectric for the first time. The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ads6023\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, provide a framework for refining models used to design next-generation computing, energy, and sensing devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have a better understanding of exactly what\u2019s going on, we can better predict and engineer the properties we want materials to achieve,\u201d says corresponding author James LeBeau, MIT\u2019s Kyocera Professor of Materials <i>Science<\/i> and Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar systems. Their unique properties come from their atomic structure, but that structure has stubbornly eluded direct measurement. Now a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has directly characterized the three-dimensional atomic structure of a relaxor ferroelectric for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}