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and when the electrons flow from one material to another, energy is released. This was discovered by Luigi Galvani in 1780
From a distance the Advanced Photon Source at the US Department of energy Argonne National Laboratory resembles a giant,
Like its much larger sibling at Cern, the circular particle accelerator at Argonne shoots electrons around its 0. 7-mile (1. 1-km) circumference at a tiny fraction below the speed of light.
Each time one of 80 magnets spaced around this ring give the electrons a shove to keep them moving around,
These will enable us to look back in time 13.6 billion years to the immediate aftermath of the Big bang. They will be precise enough to capture single photons.
delivering 10 to 100 times faster 3d imaging speeds than laser scanning confocal, two-photon,
Although confocal and two-photon microscopy can image a single plane within a living sample,
While SCAPE cannot yet compete with the penetration depth of conventional two-photon microscopy Hillman and her collaborators have used already the system to observe firing in 3d neuronal dendritic trees in superficial layers of the mouse brain.
In addition, the materials used are highly stable under the proton and electron irradiation to which they are subjected in space.
Five years later, Udalov was working as a researcher at the University of Twente in the field of high-power pulsed electron beams
The city of San jos has installed a sensor demonstration platform using Intel Gateway Solutions for the Internet of things with an Intel Quark processor and third-party sensors.
##The RRS device works by measuring changes in energy levels of electrons in molecules after the laser has excited them.
of which was followed esfenvalerate by lambda-cyhalothrin permethrin cypermethrin and tau-fluvalinate. Eighty percent of the carbamates were methomyl and carbaryl.
but it moves cells instead of electrons. Scaling up the device could mean sorting and storing hundreds of thousands of individual living cells in a matter of minutes.
The result is an integrated circuit that controls small magnetic objects much like the way electrons are controlled on computer chips.
Applications for HIV and cancer In a random access memory chip, similar logic circuits manipulate electrons on a nanometer scale, controlling billions of compartments in a square inch.
But cells are much larger than electrons, which would limit the new devices to hundreds of thousands of storage spaces per square inch.
by measuring changes in energy levels of electrons in molecules after the laser has excited them.
and efficiency and it occurs on an ongoing frustrating basis. To help laser systems overcome loss operators often pump the system with an overabundance of photons
The Intel Labs University Research Office and the DARPA Inpho (Information in a Photon) Program supported the work n
In the experiment Lee Rozema a researcher in Steinberg s lab and lead author on the paper prepared qubits in the form of photons
The sun consists of hot plasma made of electrons and ions. Magnetic field lines extend from the solar surface all the way into the corona.
which the energy state of electrons is described with electronic materials. In particular the researchers examined surfaces of constant energy as these determine the conductivity of the material and its application potential.
and receive electrons to generate electrical current when exposed to light. The new polymer developed by Yu s group called PID2 improves the efficiency of electrical power generation by 15 percent
when added to a standard polymer-fullerene mixture. ullerene a small carbon molecule is one of the standard materials used in polymer solar cellslu says. asically in polymer solar cells we have a polymer as electron donor
and fullerene as electron acceptor to allow charge separation. n their work the researchers added another polymer into the device resulting in solar cells with two polymers and one fullerene.
In order for a current to be generated by the solar cell electrons must be transferred from polymer to fullerene within the device.
But the difference between electron energy levels for the standard polymer-fullerene is large enough that electron transfer between them is difficult.
which improve the mobility of electrons throughout the material. The fibers serve as a pathway to allow electrons to travel to the electrodes on the sides of the solar cell. t s like you re generating a street
and somebody that s traveling along the street can find a way to go from this end to anotheryu explains.
and the Institute for Molecular Engineering performed X-ray scattering studies using the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne
She used electron-beam deposition to create arrays regular arrangements of nanorods in each pixel.
You can create materials by design. he researchers use a direct laser writing method called two-photon lithography to ritea three-dimensional pattern in a polymer by allowing a laser beam to crosslink
Using electron-beam evaporation which is a common technique in CMOS processing Zheng deposited a thin layer of aluminum onto a silicon photodetector topped with an ultrathin oxide coating.
The metallic nanostructures use surface plasmons waves of electrons that flow like a fluid across metal surfaces.
The researchers chose Srf for its structural simplicity it has effectively just one electron that orbits around the entire molecule. e thought it would be best to start applying this technique with a simple diatomic moleculedemille says.
Band gaps which free electrons must overcome to complete a circuit give materials the semiconducting properties that make modern electronics possible.
Each carbon atom has four electrons available to form covalent bonds. In their relaxed state the atoms in a carbyne chain would be spaced more or less evenly with two bonds between them.
Not only do the unstable nitro groups make the chemicals more explosive they also are characteristically electron deficient.
The device works by detecting the increased intensity in the light signal that occurs as a result of this interaction. e think that higher electron deficiency of explosives leads to a stronger interaction with the semiconductor sensorsays study co-lead author Sadao
and is more electron deficient than the DNT we detected in our experiments so the sensitivity of our device should be even higher than with DNTMA says.
By coupling electromagnetic waves with surface plasmons the oscillating electrons found at the surface of metals researchers were able to squeeze light into nanosized spaces
The study findings identify specific molecular vibrations that help enable charge separationhe process of kicking electrons free from atoms in the initial steps of photosynthesis. oth biological and artificial photosynthetic systems take absorbed light
The nanoparticles attract electrons from the silicon wafer surface, oxidizing it and allowing hydrogen fluoride to burn inverted pyramid-shaped nanopores into the silicon.
n-type which are rich in electrons and p-type which are poor in electrons. The problem? When exposed to the air n-type materials bind to oxygen atoms give up their electrons
and turn into p-type. Postdoctoral researcher Zhijun Ning Professor Ted Sargent and colleagues modeled and demonstrated a new colloidal quantum dot n-type material that does not bind oxygen
when exposed to air. Maintaining stable n -and p-type layers simultaneously not only boosts the efficiency of light absorption it opens up a world of new optoelectronic devices that capitalize on the best properties of both light and electricity.
For the first time researchers have detected the exciton a fundamental particle of light-matter interaction in metals. Physicists describe physical phenomena in terms of interactions between fields
When light (an electromagnetic field) reflects from a metal mirror it shakes the metal s free electrons (the particles)
and the consequent acceleration of electrons creates a nearly perfect replica of the incident light (the reflection).
and outputs of this process but a microscopic quantum mechanical description of how the light excites the electrons is lacking.
Excitons particles of light-matter interaction where light photons become transiently entangled with electrons in molecules
and Petek and his team experimentally discovered that the surface electrons of silver crystals can maintain the excitonic state more than 100 times longer than the bulk metal enabling the excitons in metals to be captured experimentally by a newly developed multidimensional coherent spectroscopic technique.
uses two sheets of dissimilar materials one an electron donor the other an electron acceptor.
When the materials are in contact electrons flow from one material to the other. If the sheets are separated then one sheet holds an electrical charge isolated by the gap between them.
and electrons pass from one to the next with just enough resistance to produce heat as a byproduct.
The cosmic microwave background is a sea of photons (light particles) left over from the big bang that pervades all of space at a temperature of minus 270 degrees Celsiusâ##a mere 3 degrees above absolute zero.
Light from the cosmic microwave background is polarized mainly due to the scattering of photons off of electrons in the early universe through the same process by
Gravitational lensing it has long been predicted can twist E modes into B modes as photons pass by galaxies and other massive objects on their way toward earth.
The patterns can be used to map out the distribution of mass thereby more accurately defining cosmologically important properties like the masses of neutrinos tiny elementary particles prevalent throughout the cosmos.
or energized with electrons stripped from the atoms in resulting intense radiation as shockwaves. These shockwaves led to the formation of the network of cool filaments containing cold molecular hydrogen made of two hydrogen atoms.
Called a near broken-gap tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) the new device uses the quantum mechanical tunneling of electrons through an ultrathin energy barrier to provide high current at low voltage.
which allowed electrons to tunnel through the barrier when desired. To improve amplification the researchers moved all the contacts to the same plane at the top surface of the vertical transistor.
A team of researchers from Penn State the National Institute of Standards and Technology and IQE a specialty wafer manufacturer jointly presented their findings at the International Electron Devices Meeting in WASHINGTON DC.
While using photons would dramatically speed up computers and telecommunications conventional photonic devices cannot be miniaturized because the wavelength of light is too large to fit in tiny components needed for integrated circuits.
Optical nanophotonic circuits might harness clouds of electrons called urface plasmonsto manipulate and control the routing of light in devices too tiny for conventional lasers.
The semiconducting quantum wells at the center of the experiment contain particlesâ##in this case a dense collection of electrons
of which further quenched the electrons motions and made an atomlike system. The basic features were essentially the same as those known for superfluorescence in atomic systems.
and electrons behave collectively. Superfluorescence is one example of how atoms under tight controls collaborate
However electrons and holes in semiconductors are charged particles so they interact more strongly than atoms
The quantum well as before consisted of stacked blocks of an indium gallium arsenide compound separated by barriers of gallium arsenide. t s a unique solid-state environment where many-body effects completely dominate the dynamics of the systemkono says. hen a strong magnetic field is applied electrons
and holes are fully quantizedâ##that is constrained in their range of motionâ##just like electrons in atomshe says. o the essential physics in the presence of a high magnetic field is quite similar to that in atomic gases.
As the electrons and holes combined to release photons the edge shifted to lower energy particles
and more efficient at harvesting energy from the sun. For solar panels wringing every drop of energy from as many photons as possible is imperative.
which excites electrons and causes them to flow in a certain direction. This flow of electrons is electric current.
But to establish a consistent direction of their movement or polarity solar cells need to be made of two materials.
Once an excited electron crosses over the interface from the material that absorbs the light to the material that will conduct the current it can't cross back giving it a direction. here's a small category of materials
however that when you shine light on them the electron takes off in one particular direction without having to cross from one material to anothersays Andrew M. Rappe professor of chemistry
Moreover it would be a way around an inefficiency intrinsic to interfacial solar cells known as the Shockley-Queisser limit where some of the energy from photons is lost as electrons wait to make the jump from one material to the other. hink of photons coming from the sun
when you catch them. f you set your limit too high you might get more value per photon
but catch fewer photons overall and come out worse than if you picked a lower denominationhe says etting your bandgap to catch only silver dollars is like only being able to catch UV LIGHT.
all directions ookthe same from the perspective of an electron so there is no overall direction for them to flow.
which catches the most valuable photons and lets the less valuable ones pass through. Successive layers have lower and lower bandgaps getting the most energy out of each photon
but adding to the overall complexity and cost of the solar cell. he family of materials we've made with the bulk photovoltaic effect goes through the entire solar spectrumrappe says. o we could grow one material
In solid-state white lighting technology phosphors are applied to the LED chip in such a way that the photons from the blue gallium nitride LED pass through the phosphor
and others notseshadri says. n the wrong hosts some of the photons are wasted as heat
#Photon detector is quantum leap from semiconductors A new superconducting detector array can measure the energy of individual photons.
An MKID is a type of superconducting photon detector; microwave refers to the readout frequency rather than the frequency at
and arrival time of individual photons. orty years ago we were doing optical astronomy with photographic plates
which shows the arrival of each and every photon. This allows astronomers to see rapidly changing events a great advantage for many observations.
and see if you can hit a dendritehe adds. ost of the time you can t. ut Smith built his own two-photon microscope system to make things easier.
Jon Kuchenreuther a postdoctoral researcher in Britt s laboratory used a technique called electron paramagnetic resonance to study the structure of the intermediate steps.
which is when the polysulfide chains in the battery s cathode (positive end) dissolve in the electrolyte the ionizing liquid that allows electrons to flow.
An atomic-resolution electron micrograph reveals its design. It looks like bricks and mortar with very specific spacing between the well-defined interfaces.
#This electron accelerator is smaller than a grain of rice Stanford university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Ross-Stanford on September 30 2013researchers have used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology
and cost of future high-energy particle colliders for exploring the world of fundamental particles and forcessays Joel England a physicist with the US Department of energy s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford university who led the experiments. t could also help enable compact accelerators and X-ray devices for security
and deliver a million more electron pulses per second. This initial demonstration reported in the journal Nature achieved an acceleration gradient
Today s accelerators use microwaves to boost the energy of electrons. Researchers have been looking for more economical alternatives and this new technique
In the accelerator-on-a-chip experiments electrons are accelerated first to near light-speed in a conventional accelerator.
Infrared laser light shining on the pattern generates electrical fields that interact with the electrons in the channel to boost their energy.
Turning the accelerator on a chip into a full-fledged tabletop accelerator will require a more compact way to get the electrons up to speed before they enter the device.
It simultaneously reports in Physical Review Letters its success in using a laser to accelerate lower energy electrons.
Byer says laser accelerators could drive compact X-ray free-electron lasers comparable to SLAC s Linac Coherent light Source that are all-purpose tools for a wide range of research.
The researchers were able to stabilize the light s frequency by developing a silica glass chip resonator with a specially designed path for the photons in the shape of
if we made the photons travel a longer path the whole device would become more stablesays Hansuek Lee a senior researcher in Vahala s lab
In the new design photons are applied to an outer ring of the spiraled resonator with a tiny light-dispensing optic fiber;
the photons subsequently travel around four interwoven Archimedean spirals ultimately closing the path after traveling more than a meter in an area about the size of a quarterâ##a journey 100 times longer than achieved in previous designs.
The work was conducted at the Geosoilenvirocars beamline operated by University of Chicago at the Advanced Photon Source housed at Argonne.
The US Department of energy Office of Science funded the use of the Advanced Photon Source. Study authors contributed from the Ecole Normale Supã rieure in France Universitã de Granoble in France the University of Chicago and UMET CNRS â##Universitã Lille 1 and UC Riverside.
and convert it into biological fuel their excess electrons flow into the carbon filaments and across to the positive electrode
which is made of silver oxide a material that attracts electrons. The electrons flowing to the positive node gradually reduce the silver oxide to silver storing the spare electrons in the process.
After a day or so the positive electrode has absorbed a full load of electrons and has largely been converted into silver says Xing Xie an interdisciplinary researcher.
At that point it is removed from the battery and re-oxidized back to silver oxide releasing the stored electrons.
Engineers estimate that the microbial battery can extract about 30 percent of the potential energy locked up in wastewater.
Next the researchers used a technique called two-photon lithography to turn that design into a three-dimensional polymer lattice.
When photons-particles of light-strike the beams they cause the beams to vibrate. And the particulate nature of the light introduces quantum fluctuations that affect those vibrations.
ROCHESTER/STONY BROOK (US)# Scientists have announced the first definitive observation of the transformation of muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos#a type of neutrino oscillation that had never been observed.#
#This discovery of electron neutrino appearance from muon neutrinos by the T2k experiment opens another critical door in our journey to unveil the secrets of our universe.#
CP violation has only been observed in another type of particle quarks (for which Nobel prizes were awarded in 1980 and 2008) never in neutrinos.
The probability that random statistical fluctuations alone would produce the observed excess of electron neutrinos is less than one in a trillion.
In the T2k experiment a muon neutrino beam is produced in the Japan Proton accelerator Research Complex called J-PARC located in Tokai village Ibaraki Prefecture on the east coast of Japan.
An analysis of the data from the Super-Kamiokande detector associated with the neutrino beam time from J-PARC reveals that there are more electron neutrinos (a total of 28 events) than would be expected (4. 6 events) without this new process.
#First boson laser could save power Stanford university University of Michigan rightoriginal Studyposted by Bjorn Carey-Stanford on May 24 2013stanford (US)# Scientists have demonstrated a revolutionary electrically driven polariton laser
The new system however makes use of the unique physical properties of bosons subatomic particles that scientists have attempted to incorporate into lasers for decades.#
Charged particles such as electrons exist in discontinuous energy levels like rungs on a ladder. An electron provided with enough energy can become excited
and#jump up to a higher energy level. Excited electrons can spontaneously fall down to an available lower energy level shooting off the difference in energy as a bit of light called a photon.
The amount of time that passes before an excited electron drops down and releases a photon is usually random.
However Einstein predicted that if an electron in an upper energy level was exposed to a photon with proper energy the electron would instantly fall down
and release a second photon identical to the first one. A laser keeps this process going by continually providing energy for electrons to move into higher energy levels.
As more and more electrons are stimulated to release photons the additional photons stimulate more and more electrons. Some of the photons are allowed to escape from the device to serve a purpose such as reading data off a CD or etching a circuit board.
The process however is inefficient. There is a hard limit to the number of electrons that can inhabit a given energy level at any given time
and conventional lasers waste energy unnecessarily exciting electrons to higher energy levels even when the lower levels are too full to accept the excited electrons
when they fall. Exciting excitonskim s polariton laser however pairs electrons with so-called#holes#to form another type of particle an exciton.
A hole is a gap where an electron could exist in a structure and is treated by physicists as a real separate particle.
These excitons are bosons and an unlimited number of them can inhabit any given energy level.
Using bosons in lasers has been a scientific goal for decades but Yamamoto s team is the first to successfully build an electrically driven laser using bosons.
The result was reproduced recently and confirmed by scientists at the University of Michigan who published their work in the journal Physical Review Letters.)
This change drastically reduces the amount of power required to run the laser. The current iteration of the polariton laser requires two to five times less energy than a comparable conventional laser
but could require 100 times less energy in the future.##The outcome would look similar to that of the traditional photon lasers
but the physical mechanisms inside are very different#Kim says. The laser consists of an electron reservoir and a hole reservoir.
When a current is applied electrons and holes come together to form excitons in excited energy levels.
When a photon hits an exciton it forms a polariton and emits an identical photon.
The entire process is like a solar cell in reverse Kim says.##In a solar cell you use light to form excitons
and separate them into an electron and a hole electrically#she says.##We bring together an electron
and a hole electrically to emit light.##One benefit of the electrically driven polariton laser is it only needs to be attached to a power supply to emit photons allowing it to be integrated easily with existing semiconductor chips in the future.
Still too coolthe current polariton laser can run only at a chilly 4 degrees Kelvin (minus 452 degrees Fahrenheit)
and requires constant cooling by liquid helium to prevent the excitons inside the gallium arsenide semiconductors from being pulled apart by thermal energy.
The team hopes switching to a material that requires more energy to break apart excitons will allow them to build polariton lasers that work at room temperature an important step toward widespread use.#
#We re hoping we can replace conventional semiconductor lasers with these polariton lasers in the future#Kim says.#
While electrons ordinarily flow freely through the nanotubes, any ethylene molecules present in the vicinity will bond with the copper atoms,
obstructing the flow of those electrons. Tiny beads of polystyrene are used also, which absorb ethylene and concentrate it near the nanotubes.
By measuring how much the electron flow has been slowed, the sensors are able to determine ethylene levels.
Zheng's color photodetector consists of an ultra-thin oxide coating atop a thin layer of aluminum that was deposited onto a silicon photodetector using a common technique called electron-beam evaporation.
It's these approximately 100-nanometers-wide slits that allow the device to differentiate between colors with plasmons waves of electrons that flow across metal surfaces) excited by light of a specific wavelength.
Devices that manipulate the spin of individual electrons are the closest possible candidate but they re less mature,
#Researchers discover 3d material that behaves like graphene This illustration depicts fast-moving, massless electrons inside cadmium arsenide.
lithium ions travel from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte, creating a chemical reaction that allows electrons to be harvested along the way.
One reason for the high cost is that real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena require small time steps to describe the movement of an electron
and opens the door for efficient real-time simulations of ultrafast processes and electron dynamics, such as excitation in photovoltaic materials and ultrafast demagnetization following an optical excitation."
Reducing the Dimension of the Problem Conventional computational methods cannot be used to study systems in which electrons have been excited from the ground state,
an excited system can be modeled with time-dependent quantum mechanical equations that describe the movement of electrons.
Entanglement is the weird instantaneous link that has been shown to exist between certain particles such as photons
or electrons even if they are separated by vast distances. Although entangled particles do not appear to have any physical connection they are capable of acting in concert.
They did so by producing quantum bits using electrons trapped in diamonds at extremely low temperatures. These ultra-cold gemstones effectively acted as prisons trapping the electrons
and allowing the scientists to accurately establish their spin or value. If they can repeat the experiment over distances significantly larger than 10 feet it could mean that incomprehensibly fast quantum computers
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