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Use of an AC rather than a DC electric field can improve the piezoelectric response of a crystal. Now, an international team of researchers say that cycles of AC fields also make the internal crystal domains in some materials bigger and the crystal transparent. The research was undertaken using world-class equipment housed within the X-ray Diffraction Research Technology Platform based in the ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Department of Physics.

When it comes to the biggest and brightest explosions seen in the Universe, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ astronomers have found that it takes two stars to make a gamma-ray burst.

Two projects led by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers are to benefit from a share of €600 million funding from the European Union.

Lasers, chemical reactions and the biggest explosion allowed in ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre are among the spectacles promised at this year’s Christmas Lectures at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

Billions of tiny interactions occur between thousands of particles in every piece of matter in the blink of an eye. Simulating these interactions in their full dynamics was said to be elusive but has now been made possible by new work of researchers from Oxford and ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has received over £900,000 to provide essential contributions to the international DUNE experiment, which aims to answer fundamental questions about our universe.