Sentences with phrase «auger electrons»

Not exact matches

Researchers have previously made LEDs with the right energy gap to emit in the mid-infrared band, but these have fallen prey to an effect called Auger recombination — in which electrons and holes recombine without producing light.

Using data collected at the Pierre Auger Observatory during the past 3.7 years, we demonstrated a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above 6 × 1019 electron volts and the positions of active galactic nuclei (AGN) lying within ∼ 75 megaparsecs.