Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

Electrons play many roles in solid materials. When they are weakly bound and able to travel—i.e., mobile—they can enable ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to researchers in Europe. This extends the study of correlated systems to electron ...

By making electrons behave as waves, a collaboration of researchers from Israel and China has produced light with quantum effects, a necessary step towards controlling quantum computers ...

For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with ...

Jun 23, 2025 Coupled electrons and phonons predicted to flow like water in 2D semiconductors A condition long considered to be unfavorable to electrical conduction in semiconductor materials may ...

A condition long considered to be unfavorable to electrical conduction in semiconductor materials may actually be beneficial in 2D semiconductors, according to new findings by UC Santa Barbara ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a powerful method to look deep inside single-atom catalysts—materials where every ...