One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

The hardness of a material normally is set by the strength of chemical bonds between electrons of neighboring atoms, not by freely flowing conduction electrons. Now a team of scientists has shown that ...

(Nanowerk News) An Australian-led study uses a scanning-tunnelling microscope ‘trick’ to map electronic structure in Na3Bi, seeking an answer to that material’s extremely high electron mobility. To ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have shown, for the first time with very high time and spatial resolution, that electrons in ...

RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special kind of magnet. This finding could help to realize future low-energy ...

Physicists have performed computer simulations that show how electrons become one thousand times more massive in certain metal compounds when cooled to temperatures near absolute zero. The models may ...

WHEN ultra-violet radiation is absorbed by atoms in a solid, one of two things may happen. Electrons may be freed from the parent atoms or impurity centres, in which case these electrons are able to ...

Modern high-density magnetic memories such as hard disk drives and magnetoresistive random access memories feature magnetic bits with a size of only a few magnetic grains (see, for example, ref. 1).

Heavy fermions: In materials like CeSiI, interactions between electrons and magnetic spins give the electrons a heavier-than-usual effective mass. In addition to being a heavy fermion, CeSiI is a van ...

NIMS, in joint research with the University of Tokyo, AIST, the University of Osaka, and Tohoku University, have proposed a ...

In a flash: artist's impression of the photoelectric effect. (Courtesy: Technical University of Vienna) Just 45 quintillionth of a second (45 attoseconds) is all it takes for a photon to liberate an ...