A unit cell of the laser-excited cobalt oxide (IMAGE)

The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences

A unit cell of the laser-excited cobalt oxide

Caption

Laser-excited cobalt oxide, when probed with light of an appropriate energy (orange), emits radiation (blue) indicating the emergence of lattice vibrations in the crystal structure. The visualization depicts a unit cell with two distinct configurations of oxygen atoms surrounding the cobalt atoms.

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Credit: Balázs Őrley

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