Sentences with phrase «control than electrons»

These are bigger and easier to control than electrons themselves, so are ideal for experiments that yield new insights.

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As a species we've had less than a century to explore the issues of quantum physics and let me remind you that what we know for sure is that you have a computing device based upon solid state electronics and the control of the flow of electrons.

Now a transistor that controls the flow of atoms, rather than electrons, could be used as a model to probe the mysterious electrical property of superconductivity.

Using circuits that control photons rather than electrons, individual components can be made far smaller and support immense information bandwidths.

Otherwise, the magnets controlling the electrons» flight would produce a blur rather than a crisp image on the monitor.

«The very idea of using protons rather than electrons to move charge encounters intuitive resistance,» says John Roberts, an electrical engineer at Cambridge University in the U.K. «People know how to control electrons.