![Illustration shows two ball-and-stick molecules in pink and red separated by a blurred streak representing how the first structure is slightly deformed into the second.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/unstable_lattice_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=lrV66BQ4)
Animation
As this animation shows, polaronic distortions start very small and rapidly expand outward in all directions to a diameter of...
![Animation of polaronic distortions expanding in an atomic lattice](/sites/default/files/polaron_expansion_anim_final.gif)
Illustration
An illustration shows polarons – fleeting distortions in a material’s atomic lattice ––in a promising next-generation energy material, lead hybrid perovskite.
![Polarons, bubbles of distortion in a perovskite lattice.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/polaron_artwork_final_la_crop_0.jpg?h=425c9a1d&itok=ZjQN4btG)
![Undulator Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/4994044825_a7e530c81e_o.jpg?h=1389ae57&itok=I3BoBtR0)