News tagged with mobile electrons


Scientists Shed Light on Heavy Electrons, Suggest New View of Superconductivity

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (41) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis have proposed a new characterization for the bizarre behavior of certain super-cooled ...





Search results for mobile electrons


Hot electron solar cell

Hot Electrons Could Double Solar Cell Power Efficiency

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Scientists have experimentally verified a theory suggesting that hot electrons could double the output of solar cells. The researchers, from Boston College, have built solar cells that successfully use hot ...


Elusive 'hot' electrons captured in ultra-thin solar cells

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Boston College researchers have observed the "hot electron" effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar ...


A woman shops at a Verizon store in New York City

Mobile sales to fall 0.7 percent this year: Gartner

Technology / Business

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worldwide sales of mobile devices are expected to decline by nearly 0.7 percent this year and pick up again next year with nine percent growth, Gartner research group said Tuesday.


Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...


Bing application has hit the virtual shelves of its longtime rival's online App Store

Bing app for iPhones hits App Store

Technology / Software

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft announced that a Bing application tailored for Apple's beloved iPhones has hit the virtual shelves of its longtime rival's online App Store.


Education Budget Cuts to Cause Increase in Mobile Technology Use

Technology / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As budget cuts in education continue, we will see more use of mobile technologies in the classroom in 2010, predicts Dr. Vivian Wright, a University of Alabama educator.


Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor

Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical- and magnetic- ...


Keep on spinning

Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...


Scientists discover mechanism behind superinsulation

Scientists discover mechanism behind superinsulation

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the microscopic mechanism behind the phenomenon of superinsulation, the ability of certain materials ...


The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) building in Washington

FTC looking into Google's AdMob acquisition

Technology / Internet

created 7 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Web search and advertising giant Google said Wednesday that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking more information about its proposed purchase of mobile advertising company AdMob.



List of search results for mobile electrons