Sentences with phrase «how electrons flow»

These processes are very diverse and varied, and researchers have used atomic force microscopy and similar nanoscience tools to understand how those electrons flow at the atomic scale.

«The thermal conductivity of the star crust depends on how electrons flow past these shapes,» he says.

Not exact matches

They learned about negative and positive electrons, why they attract, and how electricity flows.

The smoother the seam between two materials, the more easily electrons flow across it; essential for how well the electronic devices function.

«With this discovery, instead of facing the challenge of how to use only the electrons on the surface of a material, now you can just cut the material open and you have light - like electrons flowing in three dimensions inside the materials,» said M. Zahid Hasan, a professor of physics at Princeton, who led the discovery.

In order for a transistor to work, it must be able to turn a flow of electrons on and off, to generate a pattern of ones and zeros, instructing a device on how to carry out a set of computations.

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.

Working out how fermions interact in the relatively simple atom clouds could help clarify the key properties of high - temperature, frictionless electron flow, Sommer says.

One of them describes the motions of the solar system and the positions of electrons surrounding atoms; another defines how a single wave travels down a canal or traffic flows on a highway.

The smoother the seam between two materials, the more easily electrons flow across it, which is essential for how well electronic devices function.

First, the control voltage mediates how electrons pass through a boundary that can flip from an ohmic (current flows in both directions) to a Schottky (current flows one way) contact and back.