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 ...

The best bone conduction headphones use vibrations on your cheekbones to recreate sound, leaving your ears open, boosting awareness of your surroundings and offering a more comfortable experience ...

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 ...

Fusion energy has long been hailed as the “holy grail” of clean energy. However, the problem of runaway electrons has been a major hurdle in realizing the nuclear fusion process. The latest ...

Molecular crystals with conductivity and magnetism, due to their low impurity concentrations, provide valuable insights into valence electrons. They have helped link charge ordering to ...

Electron and ion conduction have been individually observed ... which have distinctive ways of conducting electrons and protons, respectively. TTF rings in each layer of the MOF pile flat on ...