Electron billiards in nanoscale circuits Date: October 24, 2010 Source: Technische Universitaet Muenchen Summary: In solar cells, solar radiation boosts electrons to higher energy states, thereby ...

I came to engineering by way of the technician route. I learned electronics in a technical school and was taught that current flow was electron flow and all circuit analysis was done that way.

While superfluid circuits using ultracold boson-like atoms already exist, the Dartmouth circuit is the first to use ultracold atoms that act as fermions. The circuit operates on the isotope lithium-6.

They’ve essentially toggled the electron highway signs with an external magnetic field. This elegant control over band asymmetry might lead to low-power, high-speed data storage based on ...

At the heart of these devices are active components, or components of the circuit that electronically control electron flow, like semiconductors.

Images of electron flow from the quantum point contact (QPC) are obtained by raster scanning a negatively charged scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip above the surface of the device and ...