Science news articles about 'mobile electrons'

  • 'Racetrack' for fast electrons in semiconductor structures

    ... extremely pure semiconductor layers where high-mobile electrons move through the crystal without ... em-ployed. In those crystals a few nanometer thin electron layer forms at the interface be-tween both ...
  • New superconductors present new mysteries, possibilities

    ... , the world energy crisis would be solved," Chen said. Chen explains that though all metals contain mobile electrons which conduct electricity, a metal becomes a superconductor only ...
  • Polymer electric storage, flexible and adaptable

    ... which have high weight and are very fragile," says Wang. "Mobile electronics need light weight electrical energy storage." The researchers, who include Wang, Yingying Lu, postdoctoral ...
  • Micro Fuel Cells Get Closer to Replacing Batteries

    ... on today`s lithium ion batteries. Power has been the weak spot in the development of more advanced mobile electronics, and the need for power will become even more important as devices feature more ...
  • Keep on spinning

    By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...
  • Spintronics Advance Reveals New Conservation Law In Fundamental Physics

    ... a major step forward in the technology of spintronics by controlling spin states of highly mobile electrons at different locations in a semiconductor and turning the collective state on and off at ...
  • Nanophysicists find unexpected magnetic effect

    ... atoms, and thus less electrical resistance, mobile electrons in the metals tend to align their spins ... electron moving past a magnetic impurity will tend to flip its spin and therefore get deflected ...
  • Gadgets: Noise-isolating ear buds have cord control

    Scosche Industries, a maker of mobile electronics and iPod accessories, has new headphones on the market with the recent launch of the IDR350M (Increased Dynamic Range) noise isolating earphones.

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