Science news articles about 'mobile electrons'

  • Twist, Flick, Tap: New Way to Operate Mobile Electronics

    Researchers have created a new way for users to interact with their mobile electronics.
  • Three for the price of one – mobile electrons multiplied in quantum dot films

    ... Delft and Toyota Europe have demonstrated that several mobile electrons can be produced by the absorption of a single light ... dots in which the electrons can move so efficiently between the quantum dots that they become free and mobile before ...
  • New superconductors present new mysteries, possibilities

    ... said. Chen explains that though all metals contain mobile electrons which conduct electricity, a metal becomes a superconductor only when two electrons with opposite "spins" are paired. The superconductor energy ...
  • Polymer electric storage, flexible and adaptable

    ... energy storage is very important for all electrical and electronic systems," says Qing Wang, associate professor ... which have high weight and are very fragile," says Wang. "Mobile electronics need light weight electrical ...
  • 'Racetrack' for fast electrons in semiconductor structures

    ... pure semiconductor layers where high-mobile electrons move through the crystal without ... materials which is called two-dimensional electron gas. The mobility of these electrons increases with decreasing impurities ...
  • Micro Fuel Cells Get Closer to Replacing Batteries

    ... PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile electronics have the potential to offer digital luxuries beyond our imagination, but they will never ... . Power has been the weak spot in the development of more advanced mobile electronics, and the need for power will become even ...
  • Keep on spinning

    ... controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences ... . The ability to control spin states of highly mobile electrons at different locations in a semiconductor, and the ability ...
  • Spintronics Advance Reveals New Conservation Law In Fundamental Physics

    ... 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 will. The discovery also represents a new ...
  • Nanophysicists find unexpected magnetic effect

    ... larger versions that are on the order of the devices used in today's electronic gadgets. "We've found that the last atom in the line ... atoms, and thus less electrical resistance, mobile electrons in the metals tend to align their spins ...
  • 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.
  • New research advances voice security technology

    ... could have a host of applications in this age of heightened security and mobile electronics. "Potential users of this technology include government, financial, health-care and telecommunications industries ...
  • Graphene films clear major fabrication hurdle

    ... of carbon, is a potential superstar for the electronics industry. With freakishly mobile electrons that can blaze through the material ... properties by introducing strains that reduce electron mobility, Zhang believes the wrinkles can be turned to an advantage ...
  • Magnesium: Super Material of the Future

    Magnesium can be a revolutionary material for everything from cars and mobile electronics.
  • Glorious gadolinium gives flash memory a future

    ... that conventional flash memory -- an essential element of mobile electronics today -- cannot improve much more because continued shrinking of its floating gate structure ...
  • New forms of highly efficient, flexible nanogenerator technology

    ... difficult to use these ceramic materials to fabricate flexible electronic systems due to their brittle property. The research ... or batteries, combines nanotechnology with piezoelectrics that can be used not only in personal mobile electronics but also in bio-implantable sensors or as an energy ...

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