Researchers at NPL have reported a novel high-speed charge sensing method for ballistic electrons, a potentially useful ...

When light hits solar cells, so-called electron-hole pairs are created: the electrons are excited and can move almost freely ...

An extremely precise detection method for single electrons, which pins down the particles with a resolution of trillionths of ...

The force between electrical charges is kind of a big deal—without it, the universe would be a primordial soup, and you would ...

We have to climb a mountain in order to conquer it. In quantum physics there is a different way: objects can reach the opposite side of a hill simply by tunnelling through it, instead of laboriously ...

With black phosphorus, physicists measure the full quantum metric tensor and unlock a new view of electrons in solids.

But the electrons lassoed in a number of photons at the same time, collecting together the energy necessary to escape the metal lattice. In the theory, Einstein proposed that only the colour (the ...

The electrons located in the outermost shell of an atom are called the valence electrons. The properties of an atom and its interaction with other elements or atoms depend on these valence electrons.

ELECTRONS ATTRACT Although electrons normally repel one another, a new study shows that two electrons (green in this illustration) can attract, thanks to their repulsion from other electrons (purple).

Electrons Should Fall Into the Nucleus Everyone who has ever sat through fourth grade knows that when you rub a balloon on your hair, or your sweater, you can stick it to the wall. You can do this ...