electron

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In an earlier experiment, Doshi used a scanning electron microscope to examine nanostructures on a polymer film.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

During this time, an electron was transferred between atoms and a low-energy electron was emitted.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

Even though they are only a single layer of atoms, they can host tightly bound excitons, which are electron and hole pairs that interact strongly with light.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

After knocking out an electron from the neon atom using soft X-rays, they followed how the system evolved for up to a picosecond, which is extremely long on an atomic timescale, before the decay occurred.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

Bohr’s model corresponded to experimental observation only for the very simplest atom, hydrogen, which had only one proton and one electron.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik