electrons

Every Batman fan knows what we're talking about! But instead of using a freeze ray gun as a weapon, a Professor from the University of Virgina wants to use it to create on-demand surface cooling for electronics inside spacecraft and…

Optical manipulation of material properties could bring about new functions. For example, exciting electrons with strong light can lead to exotic quantum effects. The periodic perturbations from the strong light field cause electrons to…

For the first time, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers directly measured the fluid-like flow of electrons in Graphene at nanometer resolution. They published their results in Journal Science. Graphene’s atom-thick sheet of…

For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers in Cambridge and Frankfurt have discovered that there are two ‘lanes’, and electrons can take both simultaneously! The flow of electrons carries the current in a wire. If the wire is…

While we know that with superconductivity, electrons form pairs. Can they also condense into foursomes? According to a paper in Nature Physics, Professor Egor Babaev and collaborators at KTH Royal Institute of Technology presented evidence…

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg observed the absorption of a single electron by a levitated droplet with magnification that made it visible with the naked eye and even measurable. According to Javier Marmolejo, Ph.D.,…

A new study led by Prof Dimi Culcer (UNSW/FLEET), indicates electron holes may be the solution to operational speed/coherence trade-off, and the potential scaling up of qubits to a mini-quantum computer. One way to make a quantum bit is…

Whether bigger is better or small really is beautiful, technology advances tend to start big and get smaller. We’ve seen this with cell phones, the first of which weighed 1.5 pounds and was nicknamed “The Brick” for good reason, since it…

The age of telepathic communication via brain-to-brain hook-ups may be on the horizon thanks to research out of the University of Washington. But meanwhile, University of California, Riverside, researchers are seeking faster, more efficient…