The direct band gap in tungsten diselenide allows for electrons to easily transition from the valence band to the conduction ...

Researchers have built a deep-ultraviolet microscope to study hard-to-analyze materials like diamond, offering a new way to probe their electronic and thermal properties at the nanoscale. This ...

Credit: Public domain Collectively, electrons that are not tightly attached to just one nucleus are called the conduction band. By absorbing energy in the form of a phonon (heat) or a photon ...

Ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors—such as diamond—are promising for next-generation electronics due to a larger energy gap between the valence and conduction bands, allowing them to handle higher ...

Because of the dual conduction bands, the pair spin-orbit interaction comes from the electric forces (Coulomb forces) of one band on the other bands electrons. An inversion asymmetry is no longer ...

There’s the pure mystery of how it happens: The phenomenon requires electrons, which carry electrical current, to pair up. Electrons repel each other, so how can they be united? Then there’s ...