Sentences with phrase «flow of electrons through»

For example, one layer could allow a fast flow of electrons through it, while the other type of layer could act as an insulator.

For example, while one layer of this new kind of superlattice can allow a fast flow of electrons through it, the other type of layer can act as an insulator.

The gold strips act as gates: A voltage applied to them stops or starts the flow of electrons through the main nanowire with an unprecedented combination of speed and precision.

Not exact matches

Our cells break down the sugars, and the electrons flow through them in a complex set of chemical reactions until they are passed on to electron - hungry oxygen.

While electrons, with their negative charge, flow from one pole of the battery to the other (thus providing power for devices), positive ions flow the other way, through an electrolyte, or ion conductor, sandwiched between those poles, to complete the flow.

Two different kinds of material are joined, and electrons are supposed to be able to flow one way through the «fabric,» but not the other.

Our cells break down the sugars, and the electrons flow through them in a complex set of chemical reactions until they are passed on to electron - hungry oxygen.

As bacteria stream through a microfluidic lattice, they synchronize and swim in patterns similar to those of electrons flowing through a magnetic material.

«The electronic structure of a molecule determines the quantum probability for electrons to flow through the nano - device,» says Reddy.

Electrons zing through the stuff in an unusual way, and they flow so easily that graphene could someday replace silicon and other semiconductors as the material of choice for microchips.

Subsystem interacts with subsystem as electrons surge and flow through microchips that operate according to the dictates of semiconductor physics.

Steve: And there are people who are out there, instead of hacking into the actual electrons that are flowing, and reading what you are up to that way, they are in an office building a block away with the telescope looking through the office window of somebody else and just looking at the computer screen to read what they are up to.

As a read head moves above bits of magnetic data, changes in the magnetic orientation of those bits alter the electrical resistance of electrons flowing through the sensor, translating the magnetic data into a stream of electrical pulses.

In new superconductors, electrons flow through layers of iron and arsenic interspersed among layers of other atoms.

Particularly interesting was the fact that these junctions were characterized by a «sequential» mode of charge flow; each electron transiting through a cluster junction stopped on the cluster for a while.

Many people picture electrical conductivity as the flow of charged particles (mainly electrons) without really thinking about the atomic structure of the material through which those charges are moving.

In the current study, the researchers theorize that the laws of physics prohibit current from flowing in the crystal's bulk and top and bottom surfaces, but permit electron flow in completely different ways on the side surfaces through the hourglass - shaped channels.

The protons enter the surrounding solution of water and methanol, while the electrons flow through the palladium itself into oxygen molecules.

In Friedman's spintronic circuit design, electrons moving through carbon nanotubes — essentially tiny wires composed of carbon — create a magnetic field that affects the flow of current in a nearby graphene nanoribbon, providing cascaded logic gates that are not physically connected.

Batteries are handy because their electrons flow through an electrode (that nub at the top of a dry - cell battery) and from there are easily channeled into MP3 players, flashlights, toys, smoke detectors, and so on.

Above a certain critical temperature, the electrons can move relatively easily through the material enabling the flow of electrical current.

Then, McCamey says, the researchers use millimeter - wave radiation to tweak the spin of the electrons while monitoring the current flowing through.

This is the idea that microscopic phenomena, such as the motion of an electron through an electromagnetic field, would look the same regardless of whether time were flowing forward or backward.

The newest research indicates that these electrons also can flow through the interior of some of these materials.

Power plants could, they argue, pump the carbon dioxide through water or other liquids and produce a flow of electrons — and therefore more electricity.

Graphene is an extremely good conductor of electricity, as electrons flow through graphene with virtually no friction.

This suggests that the electrons flowing through the tiny passage have their spin degree of freedom broken, just as electrons in a ferromagnet don't have the freedom to point in any direction but are lined up in a coordinated way.

When the device was switched on, electrons flowed single - file through each double quantum dot, causing them to emit photons in the microwave region of the spectrum.

Two kinds of material are joined, and electrons are supposed to be able to flow one way through the «fabric,» but not the other.

Superballistic flow of viscous electron fluid through graphene constrictions by R. Krishna Kumar, D. A. Bandurin, F. M. D. Pellegrino, Y. Cao, A. Principi, H. Guo, G. H. Auton, M. Ben Shalom, L. A. Ponomarenko, G. Falkovich, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, I. V. Grigorieva, L. S. Levitov, M. Polini, & A. K. Geim.

George, if you do not know from the context that we are talking about net heat flow through the wire, and not freakin» brownian movement of electrons, you are not paying enough attention.

Willis Eschenbach says: January 24, 2012 at 7:07 pm George Turner says: January 24, 2012 at 2:40 pm George, if you do not know from the context that we are talking about net heat flow through the wire, and not freakin» brownian movement of electrons, you are not paying enough attention.