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Define Ampere precision by one electron at a time
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Define Ampere precision by one electron at a time

This is a new way of defining the standard ampere, unit of current, more precisely, built by physicists in Finland and the United States. The team is led by Jukka Pekola…

December 14, 2018
Quantum Hall effect in HGTe
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Quantum Hall effect in HGTe

German and American physicists have for the first time observed the first signs of an unusual solid phenomenon called the Quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE), in which elect…

December 14, 2018
Nano antenna converges laser light
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Nano antenna converges laser light

What do you get when you combine the quantum laser cascade with an optical antenna? The answer, according to US researchers, is a device that creates a tiny spot of ligh…

December 14, 2018
New record of electron diffraction
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New record of electron diffraction

Materials science researchers in the UK and Germany have developed a new electron microscopy technique that enables the creation of electron diffraction images from a ma…

December 14, 2018
Fermion pairs do not have superfluidity
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Fermion pairs do not have superfluidity

In recent years, physicists have realized that fermions (such as electrons) can exhibit superfluidity because of their ability to pair at very low temperatures. Now, a g…

December 14, 2018
First spintronic components use commercial Si
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First spintronic components use commercial Si

Spintronic components (generation of electronic components of the future simultaneously exploiting the electronic properties as well as electrical charges) are gradually…

December 14, 2018
Electronic observation directly tunneling
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Electronic observation directly tunneling

A strong electric field from a strong laser pulse can cause the electron to tunnel out of the atom within a millionth of a second. Recently, German physicists have for t…

December 14, 2018
Turn the light on and off with spin
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Turn the light on and off with spin

Canadian and US researchers have released information about a new material that can turn off or open the light beam by changing the spin polarization of electrons in the…

December 14, 2018
Mining solar energy with coaxial nanowires
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Mining solar energy with coaxial nanowires

Scientists at the National Laboratory for Renewable Energy (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (NLBL) have designed a new type of nanowire - a kind of tiny…

December 14, 2018