Sentences with phrase «electrons tunneled through»

Each time a packet of electrons tunneled through the barrier, the team was able to measure a current using remote electrodes.

When voltage is applied, electrons tunnel through the insulator layers with the help of a «quantum well» that forms between the two insulators.

Princeton University researchers have built a rice grain - sized laser powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots.

Quantum tunneling is when an electron tunnels through a conducting material and come out the other side.

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This is achieved by the quantum tunneling effect — the ability of an electron to pass through a barrier.

The current drops to zero when the tip passes over a single lobe dense with charge because the charge and phase of two lobes of the carbon monoxide molecule interact with the molecule's orbital and cancel out, preventing electrons from tunneling through.

Eventually each atom's outermost electron detaches and enters the nanotube through a process called quantum tunnelling.

The group calculated that an electron could «tunnel» through the barrier imposed by the odorant, an effect made possible by quantum mechanics, they wrote in a preprint accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

The recent study, which was produced primarily through a research partnership between the University of Arkansas, Missouri State University and the University of Antwerp in Belgium, consisted of high - resolution transmission electron microscopy combined with scanning tunneling microscopy and state - of - the - art computational molecular dynamics.

TIME OUT Electrons can escape their atoms, even if the particles don't have enough energy to do so, through quantum tunneling.

Barton thinks electrons can «tunnel» through the channel that runs down the center of the joined bases of the helix.

A small voltage is then applied across the tip and sample, which, because of their proximity, allows electrons to «tunnel» through the vacuum gap between the tip and sample.

They reasoned that those electrons that were able to tunnel through to the second layer of gallium arsenide did so because their momenta and energies coincided with those of electronic states in that layer.

Electrical current is injected into the device, tunnelling from single - layer graphene, through few - layer boron nitride acting as a tunnel barrier, and into the mono - or bi-layer TMD material, such as tungsten diselenide (WSe2), where electrons recombine with holes to emit single photons.

These results are interpreted in terms of single - electron charging and resonant tunneling through the quantized energy levels of the nanotubes composing the rope.

However, if the ferroelectric layer is very thin, electrons can «slip» through with a certain probability, thanks to the quantum tunnelling effect.

The devices are named after Brian Josephson, who predicted in 1962 that pairs of superconducting electrons could «tunnel» right through the nonsuperconducting barrier from one superconductor to another.

But as the size of modern transistors continues to shrink, the gate material becomes so thin that it can no longer block electrons from leaking through — a phenomenon known as the quantum tunneling effect.

The laws of quantum mechanics allow pairs of electrons to «tunnel» through the barrier only very occasionally — helping the team to isolate and control the pairs as they slowly break out.

As an odorant approaches, electrons released from one side of a receptor quantum - mechanically tunnel through the odorant to the opposite side of the receptor.

After the odorant attaches to one of the nerve's receptors, electrons from that receptor tunnel through the odorant, jiggling it back and forth.

Tan cooled down a qubit - like superconducting resonator utilizing the tunneling of single electrons through a two - nanometer - thick insulator.

Scientists refer to this style of experiment as tunneling spectroscopy because electrons are taking a quantum route through the nanowire to the other side.

Nowhere in the body can we directly convert food into energy It is always broken down into electrons that tunnel through mitochondria to generate ATP.

The electron then tunnels through the barrier and its energy level is reduced such that the probability of it tunnelling back in the other direction is so small you count on it never happening.