Sentences with phrase «of electron flows»

Indeed, the future of electronics lies in optical control of electron flows.

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

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.

«This robustness of electron flow — the quantum Hall effect — is universal and can be observed in many different materials under very different conditions.»

Here, researchers are taking advantage of it — they're using these minuscule levels of electron flow to power the circuit.

Now let us turn to another aspect of electron flow.

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.

On the other hand, an electron is a succession of actual occasions, and so is the flow of experience that can be identified as a human person.

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.

Meanwhile, physical flow of a few electrons is sufficient to execute a software.

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.

In an ordinary superconductor, electrons, which carry a spin of 1/2, pair up and flow uninhibited with the help of vibrations in the atomic structure.

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.

We know that life, when you boil it right down, is a flow of electrons: «You eat sugars that have excess electrons, and you breathe in oxygen that willingly takes them.»

In the electrical currents that flow in the microcircuits of today's gadgets, the electrons behave like particles and follow classical, predictable laws of heat transfer.

Tracking electrons inside the crystals, the team made another discovery: The charge flow depends on direction, an observation that seems to fly in the face of physics.

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

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.

The satellite, which swoops on an egg - shaped orbit to within 350 kilometers of Earth's surface, detected electrical impulses from electrons coursing upward within charged sheets that shadow the downward flowing auroral electrons.

The effect and its brethren — with names like the spin Hall effect, the spin Seebeck effect and the spin Peltier effect — allow scientists to create flows of electron spins, or spin currents.

When these nanocomposites were incorporated into leaf chloroplasts of living plants, the electron flow associated with photosynthesis was enhanced by 30 %.

Incorporation of CNTs enhanced electron flow associated with photosynthesis by 49 % in extracted chloroplasts and by 30 % in leaves of living plants, and incorporation of cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria) into extracted chloroplasts significantly reduced concentrations of superoxide, a compound that is toxic to plants.

High - energy protons and electrons come screaming out of the reconnection site, flow along the loop, and crash into the denser plasma at the sun's surface.

Whether these sheets of multiple crystals can work well enough for many applications is uncertain, however, because edge boundaries of individual flakes tend to impede the rapid flow of electrons.

Shim and his research team combined X-ray techniques in the synchrotron radiation facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Labs and atomic resolution electron microscopy at ASU to determine what causes unusual flow patterns in rocks that lie 600 miles and more deep within the Earth.

Neutrons are ideal tools for identifying and characterizing magnetism in almost any material, because they, like electrons, exhibit a flow of magnetism called «spin.»

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.

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.

The reduction and oxidation reactions that occur at the electrodes of batteries produce a flow of electrons that generate and store energy.

If you then apply a strong vertical magnetic field, the flowing electrons will experience a sideways shove that will cause them to crowd to the side of the bar as they go so that a voltage develops across the width of the bar too.

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.

The electromagnetic field creates an oscillation in the antenna, producing an alternating flow of electrons.

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

The borders between these crystals interfere with electron flow and have so far hampered development of electronic devices based on carbon.

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.

By adding diborane gas (a mixture of hydrogen and boron) the researchers introduced «holes» into the crystal structure that allowed electrons to flow uninhibited.

And a cleverly designed and positioned solar satellite can avoid the shadow of night for all but 44 hours a year, so there is no need to store energy to keep the electrons flowing almost continuously.

In this configuration the lead forms «islands» below the graphene and the electrons of this two - dimensional material behave as if in the presence of a colossal 80 - tesla magnetic field, which facilitates the selective control of the flow of spins.

In transistors, any interruption in the flow of electrons results in data loss.

Unlike superconducting metal alloys, which must remain within a few degrees of absolute zero in order to display their resistance - free electron flow, high - Tc superconductors can operate at temperatures around 77 kelvins.

From a carbon nanotube, Dutch researchers have crafted a transistor that toggles on and off with the flow of a single electron.

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 this tunnel junction, holes from the silicon solar cell recombine with electrons flowing from the perovskite solar cell using quantum mechanical tunneling,» said Jonathan Mailoa, a graduate student at MIT and co-author of the report, in an email.

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

Now, a team led by physicist Yimei Zhu at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has produced definitive evidence that the movement of electrons has a direct effect on atomic arrangements, driving deformations in a material's 3D crystalline lattice in ways that can drastically alter the flow of current.

This concerted flow of electrons constitutes an electric current which in turn creates a magnetic field across the gap, perhaps providing the spark which causes the opposing fields on either side to break and reconnect.

Less evident is the concept that electrons and atoms can move cooperatively to stop the flow of charge — or, in the other extreme, make electrons flow freely without resistance.

Last year, along with researchers led by Brookhaven / Columbia University School of Engineering physicist Simon Billinge, the team established the first firm link between the disappearance of the density wave within the pseudogap phase and the emergence, as stated by Davis, of «universally free - flowing electrons needed for unrestricted superconductivity» [see: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11637].