Sentences with phrase «faster than electrons»

Dubbing these pseudo-relativistic particles «massless Dirac fermions,» the researchers also proved that they travel far faster than electrons in other semiconductors.

Not exact matches

If something happens to one electron, some of that information is immediately transmitted to the other, faster than the speed of light.

Electrons whiz around the heavier lead nucleus at 60 per cent the speed of light, much faster than in lighter tin.

Germanium... has inherently greater mobility than silicon, which means that electrons move through it faster when a current is applied.

The sun's cast - off electrons and ions move so fast they can easily be deflected by electric and magnetic fields to create what Winglee terms a mini-magnetosphere — with a greater surface area than that of projected solar sails.

Photons are faster and cooler than electrons, but no one has been able to bend useful frequencies of light around the tight corners needed to navigate the million turns on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.

Whenever electrically charged particles go faster through an insulating material (like water) than the speed of light would allow, they disrupt nearby electrons, causing a flash of light (known as Cherenkov radiation).

Excited electrons in semiconducting silicon are tracked on a time scale faster than the lattice vibrations.

«One of the graphene's special features is that the electrons move much faster than in most semiconductors used today.

A new study by University of Illinois engineers found that in the transistor laser, a device for next - generation high - speed computing, the light and electrons spur one another on to faster switching speeds than any devices available.

In the paper, Glashow and Cohen point out that if neutrinos can travel faster than light, then when they do so they should sometimes radiate an electron paired with its antimatter equivalent — a positron — through a process called Cerenkov radiation, which is analogous to a sonic boom.

Because of that link, neutrinos can't travel faster than light unless electrons do too — although electrons needn't travel as fast as the neutrinos.

First proposed in the 1980s, a quantum computer harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics (the physics of very small things like electrons and photons) to process information significantly faster than traditional computers.

Because electrons scatter polarized light more than non-polarized light, that observation will give the scientists a bead on what the electrons are doing, and by extension, what the solar wind is doing — how fast it flows, how hot it is and even where it comes from.

But for the physicist interested in electrons, which are far smaller, lighter, and faster than the atomic nuclei they swarm around, that timescale is just too slow.

Because electrons in graphene move very quickly and scatter little (see «Ballistic electrons»), computer chips made from graphene could in theory be both faster and experience far less noise from electron jostling than existing silicon chips.

An X-ray beam of such intensity will, of course, destroy any microscopic object it irradiates, but with free - electron lasers the diffraction event is faster than the coulombic explosion, so data can still be obtained.

This technique is faster and provides a wider field of view than more traditional 3D techniques such as scanning electron microscopy combined with electron energy - loss spectrometry or atom probe tomography.

This is unique and quite counterintuitive: Electrons when make up a liquid start propagating faster than if they were free, like in vacuum».

The flow of electrons is faster on graphene transistors than conventional transistors, which enables faster data transfers between chips, Lin said.

High - energy particles driven through the laboratory ceiling by exploded stars far away in the Galaxy — the cosmic rays — liberate electrons in the air, which help the molecular clusters to form much faster than climate scientists have modeled in the atmosphere.