Confined electrons live longer
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 06:07
in Physics & Chemistry
Electrons that are trapped in very small structures of only a few nanometres, demonstrate fascinating features. These could be useful for novel computers or semiconductor lasers. Researchers from the University of Sheffield, the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf research centre measured for the first time the exact lifetime of excited electrons and published their findings in the journal 'Nature Materials'...
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