electron
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"I remember the first time I looked through the electron microscope and saw those crystals," said Lin.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Such control could prove valuable for spintronics, a field that uses electron spin as well as electrical charge to process and store information, and for new computer memory designs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
MIT physicists have now uncovered new details about how two distinct forms of electron organization can emerge within the same quantum material.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
For decades, however, chemists have faced a basic limitation in how electron transfer works.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
More recently, we have learned how to use electromagnetic fields to give particles energies of at first millions and then thousands of millions of electron volts.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
One is cyclotron energy, which comes from the orbital motion of electrons through a magnetic field.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
Under these conditions, relativistic electrons can lose energy more quickly as they interact with the cosmic microwave background.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
More recently, researchers have found them in materials that also support more complicated forms of collective electron behavior, including magnetism and superconductivity, in which electrons pair together and move through a material without friction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
A charge density wave develops when electric charges such as electrons spontaneously organize into a repeating wave pattern.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
One might therefore think that opening another slit would just increase the number of electrons hitting each point of the screen, but, because of interference, it actually decreases it in some places.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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