Excitons have been created by injecting an electron into a molecule, and then removing another one, in rapid succession.

Figure 2: Single-electron transfer reliability. a , Example of bidirectional electron transfer. An electron is transferred between the quantum dots 35 times before getting trapped in the channel (T).

A research team led by Prof. Xiaoqiang Huang from Nanjing University has achieved a major breakthrough in the field of asymmetric electroenzymatic ...

In a step that brings silicon-based quantum computers closer to reality, researchers at Princeton University have built a device in which a single electron can pass its quantum information to a ...

It's a step toward controlled single-electron transfer for use in quantum computer electronic circuits. Sophie Bushwick reports. Skip to main content. Scientific American. September 27, 2011.

While single electron spins are insufficient to build quantum devices, this experiment is a reasonable proof-of-principle, and shows how multi-spin systems could be developed.

Thanks to previous work in their lab, the researchers had already succeeded in using an AFM to measure different charge states on top of an ultrathin insulator – with single-electron sensitivity. They ...

Scientists have set up and observed a single electron bond between two carbon molecules. A traditional “single bond” is actually two electrons—one from each atom. This is one electron. The fragile ...

A novel electroenzymatic system integrates ferrocene methanol-mediated anodic oxidation with ThDP-dependent enzyme catalysis, enabling efficient, non-natural single-electron oxidation of α ...

Because quantum dots can communicate through the entanglement of light particles, or photons, the researchers designed dots that emit photons when single electrons leap from a higher energy level to a ...

In this work, a single electron can be trapped in a small well ... On-demand single-electron transfer between distant quantum dots. Nature, 2011; 477 (7365): 439 DOI: 10.1038/nature10444; ...