The Fast Dance of Electron Spins – Spin-Flip Within Ten Femtoseconds
Chemists investigate the interactions of metal complexes and light. When a molecule is hit by light, in many cases a so-called “photoinduced” reaction is initiated….
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Electron-Cloaking Material May Enable More Efficient Transfer of Electrons
MIT researchers are working to develop an electron-cloaking material that would “hide” particles from passing electrons, possibly leading to more efficient thermoelectric devices and new…
New Research Paper Solves the N-Representability Problem
A new paper from David Mazziotti, a professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, solves what specialists call the “N-representability problem,” how to compute…
LCLS Zaps Electrons Out of Atoms, Resulting in Chemical Analysis with Atomic Resolution
A new technique developed by an international research team uses X-ray laser pulses from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source to zap the innermost electrons out…
Unexpected Graphite Experiment Results Raise New Questions
While using a technique to simultaneously blast and probe samples of graphite, scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory saw ultrafast changes from solid to liquid…
Electron Behavior Represents a New Era in Materials Science Research
Using SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, a team of physicists discovered never-before-seen behavior by electrons in a material called striped nickelate, representing a new era…
Cooling of Excitons Leads to a New State of Matter
A newly published paper details the findings made by physicists while measuring the coherence and spin of excitons in a refrigerated system. The team discovered…
Mapping the Pathways of Electrical Charge from Molecule to Molecule
As efforts continue to improve nanotechnology and molecular electronic devices, a team of researchers has provided the first experimental determination of the pathways by which…
Looking Back to Move Thermoelectric Materials Forward
In search of better thermoelectric materials, a team of physicists turned to a material NASA engineers first used roughly 40 years ago for spacecraft design,…
Simulating Quantum Walks in Two Dimensions
A team of physicists are the first to successfully realize a quantum walk in two dimensions and believe by simulating these quantum walks, physicists could…
APEX Electron Gun in Second Phase of Testing
Over the last six years, researchers at the Berkeley Lab have made great progress on APEX, an electron gun that operates at radio frequency in…
“Designer Electrons” Have Tunable Properties
The first ever electrons with tunable properties were observed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. By repositioning the carbon monoxide molecules that were placed on…
Graphene Submerged in Electrically Neutral Liquid Sets Mobility Record
It has been extremely difficult to create graphene-based devices that reliably operate at room temperature and pressure, until now. By submerging sheets of graphene in…
Nuclear Clock Accurate to 19 Decimal Places
A newly proposed nuclear clock would be nearly 100 times more accurate than the best atomic clocks we have now, would be accurate to 19…
First Real-Time Image of Two Atoms Vibrating in a Molecule
Using laser induced electron diffraction, a team of physicists recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule. While using common atmospheric…
Nucleons in a Dense Nucleus Exceed 25 Percent of the Speed of Light
Researchers at U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne and Thomas Jefferson National Laboratories have demonstrated that a quarter of the nucleons in a dense nucleus exceed…
Researchers Discover Electrical Switch for Magnetic Current
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute used a short electric pulse to change the magnetic transport properties of a material sandwich consisting of a ferroelectric…
NIST Researches the Use of Switching Mechanisms
Using ferromagnetic metals for the electrodes, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology built a layered switching device to better…