![To direct-write the logo of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists started with a gray-scale image. To direct-write the logo of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists started with a gray-scale image.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/ORNL%20Leaf%20Logo_No%20Scale_Green_v2.jpg?itok=rpIXT_ko)
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![To direct-write the logo of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists started with a gray-scale image. To direct-write the logo of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists started with a gray-scale image.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/ORNL%20Leaf%20Logo_No%20Scale_Green_v2.jpg?itok=rpIXT_ko)
![Miaofang Chi Miaofang Chi](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/miaofangchi200.jpg?itok=Sy8kHw2n)
Miaofang Chi is an early career scientist making a name for herself—and microscopy—at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is a researcher at ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences whose early-career
![A 32-face 3-D truncated icosahedron mesh was created to test the simulation’s ability to precisely construct complex geometries. A 32-face 3-D truncated icosahedron mesh was created to test the simulation’s ability to precisely construct complex geometries.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/nn-2016-021085_0009_0.jpeg?itok=ZRBSAZox)
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Solar cells based on cadmium and tellurium could move closer to theoretical levels of efficiency because of some sleuthing by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
![ORNL software engineer Eric Lingerfelt (right) and Stephen Jesse (left) of ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences led the development of the Bellerophon Environment for Analysis of Materials (BEAM). ORNL software engineer Eric Lingerfelt (right) and Stephen Jesse (left) of ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences led the development of the Bellerophon Environment for Analysis of Materials (BEAM).](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/beam_photo.jpg?itok=ALEhQOOq)
![This 3-D structure was created in a microscope. On the left is the structure; on the right is the simulation that shows how to create such a structure. This 3-D structure was created in a microscope. On the left is the structure; on the right is the simulation that shows how to create such a structure.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/EBID%20combo%20NEW.jpg?itok=JVcFp39C)
Additive manufacturing techniques featuring atomic precision could one day create materials with Legos flexibility and Terminator toughness, according to researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
![ORNL’s Juan Carlos Idrobo helped develop an electron microscopy technique to measure magnetism at the atomic scale. ORNL’s Juan Carlos Idrobo helped develop an electron microscopy technique to measure magnetism at the atomic scale.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Idrobo_STEM_0.jpg?itok=o9AfJo-p)
Scientists can now detect magnetic behavior at the atomic level with a new electron microscopy technique developed by a team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Uppsala University, Sweden.
![Microwave imaging (left) reveals conducting ferroelectric domain walls (right) in lead zirconate titanate. Before microwave microscopy, it was difficult to detect electrically conducting ferroelectric domains. Microwave imaging (left) reveals conducting ferroelectric domain walls (right) in lead zirconate titanate. Before microwave microscopy, it was difficult to detect electrically conducting ferroelectric domains.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/04%20a%20-%20dawn%20levy%20tip.png?itok=Oc4Zv81s)
![Miaofeng Chi in her lab Miaofeng Chi in her lab](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/miaofengchi_lab200.jpeg?itok=qpQu_bEe)