Researchers also developed a glass material embedded with electronics that shatters into tiny particles after use."
One works like tweezers and seems to grab the particles in thin air. Another traps the object in a high-pressure cage.
Water from the blood is the catalysis that sets it fizzing. f you can get the particles in the general area of the wound,
#Device can measure the distribution of tiny particles as they flow through a microfluidic channel A new technique can measure the relative positions of tiny particles as they flow through a fluidic channel,
As cells or particles flow through the channel, one at a time, their mass slightly alters the cantilever vibration frequency.
The masses of the particles can be calculated from that change in frequency. In this study, the researchers wanted to see
if they could gain more information about a collection of particles, such as their individual sizes and relative positions. ith the previous system,
when a single particle flows through we can measure its buoyant mass, but we don get any information about whether it a very small, dense particle,
or maybe a large, not-so-dense particle. It could be a long filament, or spherical, says grad student Nathan Cermak, one of the paper lead authors.
Postdoc Selim Olcum is also a lead author of the paper; Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT departments of Biological engineering and Mechanical engineering,
and to measure how each particle affects the vibration frequency of each mode at each point along the resonator.
but also the position of each particle. ll these different modes react differently to the distribution of mass,
The particles flow along the entire cantilever in about 100 milliseconds, so a key advance that allowed the researchers to take rapid measurements at each point along the channel was the incorporation of a control system known as a phase-locked loop (PLL).
which changes as particles flow through. Each vibration mode has its own PLL, which responds to any changes in the frequency.
This allows the researchers to rapidly measure any changes caused by particles flowing through the channel.
In this paper, the researchers tracked two particles as they flowed through a channel together, and showed they could distinguish the masses
and positions of each particle as it flowed. Using four vibrational modes, the device can attain a resolution of about 150 nanometers.
Inertial imaging could allow scientists to visualize very small particles, such as viruses or single molecules. ultimode mass sensing has previously been limited to air or vacuum environments,
electron spins can be aligned to generate ferroelectric polarization. Most pressure cells, however, apply stress in all directions equally. he biggest challenge we faced was accurately controlling uniaxial stress at temperatures as low as 3 kelvin,
This expansion and contraction of aluminum particles generates great mechanical stress, which can cause electrical contacts to disconnect.
which would be ok if not for the repeated large volume expansion and shrinkage that cause SEI particles to shed.
but yolk-shell particles feature a void between the two equivalent to where the white of an egg would be.
The aluminum particles they used, which are about 50 nanometers in diameter, naturally have oxidized an layer of alumina (Al2o3).
a better conductor of electrons and lithium ions when it is very thin. Aluminum powders were placed in sulfuric acid saturated with titanium oxysulfate.
if the particles stay in the acid for a few more hours, the aluminum core continuously shrinks to become a 30-nm-across olk,
The particles are treated then to get the final aluminum-titania (ATO) yolk-shell particles. After being tested through 500 charging-discharging cycles,
and electrons to get in and out. The result is an electrode that gives more than three times the capacity of graphite (1. 2 Ah/g) at a normal charging rate
indicating ATO is quite close to being ready for real applications. hese yolk-shell particles show very impressive performance in lab-scale testing,
Raman spectroscopy and transport measurements on the graphene/boron nitride heterostructures reveals high electron mobilities comparable with those observed in similar assemblies based on exfoliated graphene.
uses a beam of electrons to track where heat is produced and how it dissipates with nanometer accuracy.
Electrons passing through a sample excite collective charge oscillations called plasmons. Monitoring the energy required to excite the plasmons enables measuring local variations in a sample density,
e transferred electrons from the dopant-potassium-to the surface of the black phosphorus, which confined the electrons
and allowed us to manipulate this state. Potassium produces a strong electrical field which is required what we to tune the size of the band gap.
This process of transferring electrons is known as doping and induced a giant Stark effect, which tuned the band gap allowing the valence
which harness the science of the very small the strange behaviour of subatomic particles to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today fastest supercomputers.
a UNSW Research Fellow and the lead author of the Nature paper. ee morphed those silicon transistors into quantum bits by ensuring that each has only one electron associated with it.
We then store the binary code of 0 or 1 on the pinof the electron, which is associated with the electron tiny magnetic field,
he added. Dzurak noted that the team had recently atented a design for a full-scale quantum computer chip that would allow for millions of our qubits,
"Graphene, a one-atom-thick, two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms, is known for moving electrons at lightning speed across its surface without interference.
and stop electrons at will via bandgaps, as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps,
a technique using electrons (instead of light or the eyes) to see the characteristics of a sample,
Data gathered from the electron signatures allowed the researchers to create images of the material's dimensions and orientation.
and extent to which electrons scattered throughout the material.""We're looking at fundamental physical properties to verify that it is, in fact,
"In contrast to other semiconductors like silicon or gallium arsenide, graphene can pick up light with a very large range of photon energies and convert it into electric signals.
thereby transferring the energy of the photons to the electrons in the graphene. These"hot electrons"increase the electrical resistance of the detector
and generate rapid electric signals. The detector can register incident light in just 40 picoseconds these are billionths of a second.
This optical universal detector is already being used at the HZDR for the exact synchronization of the two free-electron lasers at the ELBE Center for High-power Radiation Sources with other lasers.
"In contrast to other semiconductors like silicon or gallium arsenide, graphene can pick up light with a very large range of photon energies and convert it into electric signals.
thereby transferring the energy of the photons to the electrons in the graphene. These"hot electrons"increase the electrical resistance of the detector
and generate rapid electric signals. The detector can register incident light in just 40 picoseconds these are billionths of a second.
This optical universal detector is already being used at the HZDR for the exact synchronization of the two free-electron lasers at the ELBE Center for High-power Radiation Sources with other lasers.
The particles, described today in Nature Communications, are enhanced an version of a naturally occurring, weakly magnetic protein called ferritin. erritin,
This eliminates the need to tag cells with synthetic particles and allows the particles to sense other molecules inside cells.
The paper lead author is former MIT graduate student Yuri Matsumoto. Other authors are graduate student Ritchie Chen and Polina Anikeeva, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering.
Magnetic pull Previous research has yielded synthetic magnetic particles for imaging or tracking cells, but it can be difficult to deliver these particles into the target cells.
In the new study, Jasanoff and colleagues set out to create magnetic particles that are encoded genetically.
With this approach the researchers deliver a gene for a magnetic protein into the target cells,
) Plasmonic devices harness clouds of electrons called surface plasmons to manipulate and control light. Potential applications for the nanotweezer include improved-sensitivity nanoscale sensors
The nanotweezer might be used to create devices containing nanodiamond particles or other nanoscale light-emitting structures that can be used to enhance the production of single photons, workhorses of quantum information processing,
which could bring superior computers, cryptography and communications technologies. Conventional computers use electrons to process information.
However, the performance might be ramped up considerably by employing the unique quantum properties of electrons
and photons, said Vladimir M. Shalaev, co-director of a new Purdue Quantum Center, scientific director of nanophotonics at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering."
"The nanotweezer system has been shown to cause convection in fluid on-demand, resulting in micrometer-per-second nanoparticle transport by harnessing a single plasmonic nanoantenna,
which cannot result in a net transport of suspended particles. However, the Purdue researchers have overcome this limitation,
increasing the velocity of particle transport by 100 times by applying an alternating current electric field in conjunction with heating the plasmonic nanoantenna using a laser to induce a force far stronger than otherwise possible."
The interesting thing about this system is that not only can we trap particles but also do useful tasks
If I bring a particle to the hotspot then I can do measurements, and sensing is enhanced
""Then, once we turn off the electric field the laser holds the particles in place, so it can operate in two modes.
The laser traps the particles, making it possible to precisely position them. The technique was demonstrated with polystyrene particles i
#An important step in artificial intelligence: Researchers in UCSB's Department of Electrical and Computer engineering are seeking to make computer brains smarter by making them more like our own Abstract:
which rely on the drift and diffusion of electrons and their holes through semiconducting material, memristor operation is based on ionic movement,
The ionic memory mechanism brings several advantages over purely electron-based memories, which makes it very attractive for artificial neural network implementation,
"Ions are also much heavier than electrons and do not tunnel easily, which permits aggressive scaling of memristors without sacrificing analog properties."
which is the basis for controlling electrons in computers, phones, medical equipment and other electronics. Yoke Khin Yap, a professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, has worked with a research team that created these digital switches by combining graphene and boron nitride nanotubes.
or differences in how much energy it takes to excite an electron in the material.""When we put them together,
you form a band gap mismatch--that creates a so-called'potential barrier'that stops electrons.""The band gap mismatch results from the materials'structure:
caused by the difference in electron movement as currents move next to and past the hairlike boron nitride nanotubes.
"Imagine the electrons are like cars driving across a smooth track, "Yap says.""They circle around and around,
With their aligned atoms, the graphene-nanotube digital switches could avoid the issues of electron scattering."
"You want to control the direction of the electrons, "Yap explains, comparing the challenge to a pinball machine that traps,
slows down and redirects electrons.""This is difficult in high speed environments, and the electron scattering reduces the number and speed of electrons."
"Much like an arcade enthusiast, Yap says he and his team will continue trying to find ways to outsmart
or change the pinball setup of graphene to minimize electron scattering. And one day, all their tweaks could make for faster computers--and digital pinball games--for the rest of us s
For example, particles organized in long-ranged structures by external fields can be bound permanently into stiff chains through electrostatic or Van der waals attraction,
much like sand particles mixed with the right amount of water can form sandcastles.""Because oil and water don't mix,
the oil wets the particles and creates capillary bridges between them so that the particles stick together on contact,
"said Orlin Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the corresponding author of the paper."
and an external magnetic field is applied to the particles.""In other words, this material is temperature responsive, and these soft and flexible structures can be pulled apart
First, the control voltage mediates how electrons pass through a boundary that can flip from an ohmic (current flows in both directions) to a Schottky (current flows one way) contact and back.
The principle was tested at the HZDR on a typical laboratory laser as well as on the free-electron laser FELBE.
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
This result shows a step change for experiments with photons, and what the future looks like for quantum technologies.
Now anybody can run their own experiments with photons, much like they operate any other piece of software on a computer.
generating protons and electrons as well as oxygen gas. The photocathode recombines the protons and electrons to form hydrogen gas.
A key part of the JCAP design is the plastic membrane, which keeps the oxygen and hydrogen gases separate.
and electrons to pass through. The new complete solar fuel generation system developed by Lewis and colleagues uses such a 62.5-nanometer-thick Tio2 layer to effectively prevent corrosion
protons, and electrons and is a key to the high efficiency displayed by the device.
#Building the electron superhighway: Vermont scientists invent new approach in quest for organic solar panels and flexible electronics University of Vermont scientists have invented a new way to create
what they are calling an electron superhighway in an organic semiconductor that promises to allow electrons to flow faster
But the basic science of how to get electrons to move quickly and easily in these organic materials remains murky.
what they are calling"an electron superhighway"in one of these materials--a low-cost blue dye called phthalocyanine--that promises to allow electrons to flow faster and farther in organic semiconductors.
"Roughly speaking, an exciton is displaced a electron bound together with the hole it left behind.
the UVM team was able to observe nanoscale defects and boundaries in the crystal grains in the thin films of phthalocyanine--roadblocks in the electron highway."
"We have discovered that we have hills that electrons have to go over and potholes that they need to avoid,
"these stacked molecules--this dish rack--is the electron superhighway.""Though excitons are charged neutrally --and can't be pushed by voltage like the electrons flowing in a light bulb--they can, in a sense, bounce from one of these tightly stacked molecules to the next.
This allows organic thin films to carry energy along this molecular highway with relative ease,
information is transported via the motion of electrons. In this scheme, the charge of the electron is used to transmit a signal.
In a magnetic insulator, a spin wave is used instead. Spin is a magnetic property of an electron.
A spin wave is caused by a perturbation of the local magnetisation direction in a magnetic material.
Such a perturbation is caused by an electron with an opposite spin, relative to the magnetisation.
An electron can flow through the platinum, but not in the YIG since it is an insulator.
However, if the electron collides on the interface between YIG and platinum, this influences the magnetisation at the YIG surface and the electron spin is transferred.
This causes a local magnetisation direction generating a spin wave in the YIG. Spin wave detection The spin waves that the researchers send into the YIG are detected by the platinum strip on the other side of the YIG.
and transfers its spin to an electron in the platinum. This influences the motion of the electron, resulting in an electric current that the researchers can measure.
The researchers already studied the combination of platinum and YIG in previous research. From this research it was found that
or cooling of the platinum-YIG interface, depending on the relative orientation of the electron spins in the platinum and the magnetisation in the YIG G
and some of those photons interfere with one another and find their way onto a detector,
a computer then reconstructs the path those photons must have taken, which generates an image of the target material--all without the lens that's required in conventional microscopy."
The table-top machines are unable to produce as many photons as the big expensive ones
hardly any photons will bounce off the target at large enough angles to reach the detector.
Without enough photons, the image quality is reduced. Zürch and a team of researchers from Jena University used a special, custom-built ultrafast laser that fires extreme ultraviolet photons a hundred times faster than conventional table-top machines.
With more photons, at a wavelength of 33 nanometers, the researchers were able to make an image with a resolution of 26 nanometers--almost the theoretical limit."
"Nobody has achieved such a high resolution with respect to the wavelength in the extreme ultraviolet before, "Zürch said.
and cools it in a way that allows it to convert more photons into electricity. The work by Shanhui Fan, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, research associate Aaswath P. Raman and doctoral candidate Linxiao Zhu is described in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy
the less efficient they become at converting the photons in light into useful electricity. The Stanford solution is based on a thin,
because the optimum conditions for applying nanocomposite coating through electrophoretic method on metals are obtained at low particle size distributions s
The work demonstrates the potential of low energy electron holography as a non-destructive, single-particle imaging technique for structural biology.
The researchers describe their work in a paper published this week on the cover of the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing."
Low energy electron holography is a technique of using an electron wave to form holograms. Similar to light optical holography
"The low energy electron holography has two major advantages over conventional microscopy. First, the technique doesn't employ any lenses,
Second, low energy electrons are harmless to biomolecules, "Longchamp said. In many conventional techniques such as transmission electron microscopy, the possible resolution is limited by high-energy electrons'radiation damage to biological samples.
Individual biomolecules are destroyed long before an image of high enough quality can be acquired. In other words, the low permissible electron dose in conventional microscopies is not sufficient to obtain high-resolution images from a single biomolecule.
However in low energy electron holography, the employed electron doses can be much higher--even after exposing fragile molecules like DNA or proteins to a electron dose more than five orders of magnitude higher
than the critical dose in transmission electron microscopy, no radiation damage could be observed. Sufficient electron dose in low energy electron holography makes imaging individual biomolecules at a nanometer resolution possible.
In Longchamp's experiment, the tobacco mosaic virions were deposited on a freestanding, ultraclean graphene, an atomically thin layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice.
which is conductive, robust and transparent for low energy electrons. To obtain the high-resolution hologram, an atomically sharp, tungsten tip acts as a source of a divergent beam of highly coherent electrons.
When the beam hits the sample, part of the beam is scattered and the other part is affected not.
"This is the first time to directly observe the helical structure of the unstained tobacco mosaic virus at a single-particle level,
"Since low energy electron holography is a method very sensitive to mechanical disturbance, the current nanometer resolution could be improved to angstrom (one ten billionth of a meter)
electrons flow from the anode through a circuit outside the battery and back into the cathode.
Having lost the electrons that are generating the current, some of the atoms in the anode--an electrically conductive metal like lithium--become ions that then travel to the cathode,
we have made two major advances--the ability to precisely control the brightness of light-emitting particles called quantum dots,
and tunable number of photons per tagged biomolecule. They are expected also to be used for precise color matching in light-emitting devices and displays,
and for photon-on-demand encryption applications. The same principles should be applicable across a wide range of semiconducting materials."
and magnetization in order to understand how to control electron spins (electron magnetic moments) and to create the new generation of electronics.
In spin electronics-or spintronics-information is coded via the electron spin, which could be directed along
that the spins of the electron and of other charged particles are very difficult to control.
During the experiments scientists bombarded the experimental samples with muons (particles that resemble electrons, but are 200 times heavier) and analyzed their dissipation scattering.
or high-energy reservoir of electrons. Lithium can do that, as the charge carrier whose ions migrate into the graphite
Using neutron scattering at NIST Center for Neutron Research, they were able to resolve the magnetic profiles along the depth of the hybrid structure.
This finding is likely to spawn new developments in emerging technologies such as low-power electronics based on the spin of electrons or ultrafast quantum computers.
"The electrons in topological insulators have unique quantum properties that many scientists believe will be useful for developing spin-based electronics and quantum computers.
In Science Advances, the researchers report the discovery of an optical effect that allows them to"tune"the energy of electrons in these materials using light,
which arises from quantum interference between the different simultaneous paths electrons can take through a material
and electrons to read data. This could enable the size of storage cells to be reduced to atomic dimensions.
Standard memory devices are based on electrons which are displaced by applying voltage. The development of ever smaller and more energy-efficient storage devices according to this principle,
"Electrons are roughly 1000 times lighter than ions and so they move much more easily under the influence of an external voltage.
while the electrons remain mobile and can be used to read the storage status."The trick:
"The tunnel effect enables us to move electrons through the ultra-thin layer with very little energy,
and electrons, on the other hand, at voltages far below one volt. This way, ions can be used specifically for storing and electrons specifically for reading data.
The researchers also reported that their research had another very interesting element. The new resistance-based storage devices could even simulate brain structures.
which it then emits in the form of light particles. In this case, the light has a much lower frequency than ordinary light
They suggested that magnetic atoms introduced into a superconductor must create special states of excitation around themselves-electron-hole standing waves named after their discoverers.
One promising option is to use topologically protected electron states that are resistant to decoherence.
The theory predicts that such non-Abelian anyons may occur in a two-dimensional"liquid"of electrons in a superconductor under the influence of a local magnetic field.
The electron liquid thus becomes degenerate, i e. the electrons can have different states at the same energy level.
The superposition of several anyons cannot be affected without moving them, therefore they are protected completely from disturbances e
This phase, characterized by an unusual ordering of electrons, offers possibilities for new electronic device functionalities and could hold the solution to a longstanding mystery in condensed matter physics having to do with high-temperature superconductivity--the ability
first consider a crystal with electrons moving around throughout its interior. Under certain conditions, it can be energetically favorable for these electrical charges to pile up in a regular,
In addition to charge, electrons also have a degree of freedom known as spin. When spins line up parallel to each other (in a crystal, for example),
But what if the electrons in a material are ordered not in one of those ways?
And like the cuprates, iridates are electrically insulating antiferromagnets that become increasingly metallic as electrons are added to
where an additional amount of energy is required to strip electrons out of the material. For decades, scientists have debated the origin of the pseudogap
but uses photons--the quanta of light--instead of electrons. The biggest advantage of using photons is the absence of interactions between them.
As a consequence, photons address the data transmission problem better than electrons. This property can primarily be used for in computing where IPS (instructions per second) is the main attribute to be maximized.
The typical scale of eletronic transistors--the basis of contemporary electronic devices--is less than 100 nanometers
one of them interacts with the other and dampers it due to the effect of two-photon absorption.
--Free carriers (electrons and electron holes) place serious restrictions on the speed of signal conversion in the traditional integrated photonics.
Film in 4-D with ultrashort electron pulses Physicists of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich shorten electron pulses down to 30 femtoseconds duration.
A team from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) has managed now to shorten electron pulses down to 28 femtoseconds in duration.
Sharp images of moving atoms Electrons are odd particles: they have both wave and particle properties.
Electron microscopy has been taking advantage of this phenomenon for roughly a century now and grants us a direct insight into the fundamental components of matter:
They create beams of electron pulses, which can, due to their extremely short flashing, provide us with very sharp images of moving atoms and electrons.
Nevertheless, some of the fastest processes still remained blurred. Those who want to explore the microcosm
In order to sharply capture motions of such particles during a reaction, one needs to work with"shutter speeds"in the range of femtoseconds
Scientists from the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at LMU and MPQ have succeeded now in producing ultrashort electron pulses with a duration of only 28 femtoseconds.
If such electrons meet a molecule or atom, they are diffracted into specific directions due to their short wavelength.
the physicists applied their ultrashort electron pulses to a biomolecule in a diffraction experiment. It is planned to use those electron beams for pump-probe experiments:
an optical laser pulse is sent to the sample, initiating a response. Shortly afterwards the electron pulses produce a diffraction image of the structure at a sharp instant in time.
A large amount of such snapshots at varying delay times between the initiating laser pulses and the electron pulses then results in a film showing the atomic motion within the substance.
Thanks to the subatomic wavelength of the electrons, one therefore obtains a spatial image as well as the dynamics.
Altogether this results in a four-dimensional impression of molecules and their atomic motions during a reaction. ith our ultrashort electron pulses
we are now able to gain a much more detailed insight into processes happening within solids and molecules than before,
"Now the physicists aim to further reduce the duration of their electron pulses. The shorter the shutter speed becomes, the faster the motions
The aim of the scientists is to eventually observe even the much faster motions of electrons in light-driven processes o
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