electron

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Binderbauer’s goal is “net electrons”—producing more electricity than the system consumes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Solar cells produce electricity when photons from sunlight hit a semiconductor and transfer energy to electrons, setting them in motion and creating an electric current.

From Science Daily

However, there are key differences: qubits, as they are better known, are generally created by manipulating and measuring particles such as photons, electrons, or trapped ions.

From Barron's

That atom then stabilizes itself by pulling an electron from a nearby atom, while the released energy ionizes a third neighbor.

From Science Daily

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