Browsing: electrons

Although electrons cannot be detected in materials, they play an important role in determining the properties of materials. Dmytro Radzinkov/Alamy “Dark” electrons in solid-state materials could…

A special laser (red) can bend electrons (blue) into a spiral shapeDr. Yiqi Fan (University of Konstanz) With the help of a laser, the electrons were…

A research team led by physicists at Argonne National Laboratory isolated the energetic motion of electrons while “freezing” the motion of the much larger atoms they…