Engineers have built the first fully solid-state phonon laser on a single chip, generating surface acoustic waves at about 1 ...

Physicists have proposed turning piezoelectric crystals, the same materials found in quartz watches and microphone pickups, into detectors for axion dark matter. The idea, called the piezoaxionic ...

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