Sentences with phrase «rather than the electrons»

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.

Using circuits that control photons rather than electrons, individual components can be made far smaller and support immense information bandwidths.

«The very idea of using protons rather than electrons to move charge encounters intuitive resistance,» says John Roberts, an electrical engineer at Cambridge University in the U.K. «People know how to control electrons.

Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.

The neutrons interact with the nuclei rather than the electrons in the skull, as X-rays do, and thus have different elemental sensitivity.

Johnson hoped the numbers could tell them something about how the individual particles — in this case, insurgents rather than electrons — functioned when put together in large groups.

I still like the Jag's muscle - car edge better, but the Benz is almost electric in its torque delivery — it's just all - in right from the start, and a delightfully meaty rumble just below the surface is the only thing that indicates your thrust is sponsored by hydrocarbons rather than electrons.

I even understand how some atoms have even a hyperfine structure to their atomic spectra; that is a result of the specific structure in the nucleus of that atom, rather than its electron configuration.

Not exact matches

Einstein's view was the «common - sense» one, that an electron, for instance, has a definite position and spin, and that QM's inability to predict these values precisely is a weakness of QM rather than a description of reality (the Bohr view, held by most physicists).

The next step toward practical light sources is to excite the well with electrons rather than laser light.

The atom is a helium nucleus orbited by an electron and an antiproton rather than two electrons.

Otherwise, the magnets controlling the electrons» flight would produce a blur rather than a crisp image on the monitor.

Others, however, think the chemical change can be explained in a more conventional picture, in which the electrons hop from atom to atom on the DNA rather than tunneling down the helix in one step.

Spin transfer torque is the transfer of the spin angular momentum from conduction electrons to the magnetization of a ferromagnet and enables the manipulation of nanomagnets with spin currents rather than magnetic fields,» explained Gyung - Min Choi, who recently completed his PhD in materials science and engineering at Illinois.

Researchers using the BaBar Detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California have spent the past four years smashing together electrons and their antimatter counterparts — positrons — to explore one of the greatest mysteries in the universe: Why is everything made from matter, rather than antimatter?

When sunshine strikes a solar cell, some of the electrons in the cell take on energy but quickly lose most of it as thermal energy rather than breaking loose to become part of an electric current.

If microbes could be convinced to do the same — to donate their electrons to an electrode rather than to random panhandling molecules — they, too, could supply us with electricity.

Rather than processing and storing information as bits in transistors or memories, which limit information to the binary» 1» or» 0», quantum computers would instead use quantum systems, such as atoms, ions, or electrons, as «qubits» to process and store «quantum information» in, which can be in an infinite number of combinations of» 1 and 0».

Using the electron's spin, rather than its charge, may allow for devices that consume much less energy, says Stuart Parkin, an IBM Fellow and manager of Almaden's magnetoelectronics group.

Once they determined that the aluminum was giving up electrons to the film, they used a sapphire substrate that was cut in such a way as to expose the oxygen rather than the aluminum on the surface.

Rather than the light used in a traditional microscope, this technique uses focused beams of electrons to illuminate a sample and form images with atomic resolution.

So rather than, say, a 10 percent chance of an electron neutrino turning into a muon neutrino, for example, physicists wonder if the odds are lower that an electron antineutrino turns into a muon antineutrino.

«Even greater levels of accuracy could be achieved with the help of a so - called nuclear clock, based on oscillations in the atomic nucleus itself rather than oscillations in the electron shells surrounding the nucleus,» says Thirolf.

The electrons travel from their initial state to the excited state by two paths rather than one — similar to a forked road leading to the same destination.

Rather than individually tracking the motions of each electron within a material, scientists think of the disturbance as its own particle, simplifying the math that explains how the material behaves.

Consequently it is more accurate to refer to the TMO electron ensemble as a 2D liquid rather than as a 2D gas.

«In our new study we're using microwaves to match the energy between electrons and carbon - 13 nuclei rather than a magnetic field, which removes some difficult restrictions on the strength and alignment of the magnetic field and makes our technique more easy to use,» says King.

That's because neutrons interact with the nucleus, rather than the cloud of electrons around it, and interact with very different strengths with the nucleus of each element at the lighter end of the periodic table.

Corkum notes that it is exponentially more difficult, but not theoretically prohibited, to get electrons from lower orbitals rather than from higher orbitals.

Another problem is that most catalysts channel more of the available electrons into splitting water rather than converting CO2 to CO..

The cell was then fit into a microscope that uses a beam of electrons, rather than light, to obtain images.

Scanning electron microscopy analysis of developing inflorescences from PCZ - treated wild - type plants showed that terminal AMs mostly formed spikelets rather than bristles (Figures 5C and 5D), that there was ectopic development of rudimentary spikelets (Figure 5D), and many spikelets (∼ 43 %) developed two florets instead of one (Figure 5E), very similar to what we observed in bsl1 - 1 mutants.

Electron microscopes focus streams of electrons rather than light to see incredibly tiny things.

The simulations showed that the observed behavior, known as a knock - on process, is consistent with the electron beam transferring energy to individual atoms in the material rather than heating an area of the material.

In our case, disorder induced by electron scattering actually reduces rather than increase resistance.

This operates on raw data, rather than secondary science products, by returning individual electrons to pixels from which they were unintentionally dragged during readout.

electron microscope A microscope with high resolution and magnification that uses electrons rather than light to image an object.

Because electrons want to be paired, rather than in odd numbers, these molecules are highly unstable.

As they say, winning is winning, even if it's by way of electrons rather than dino juice.

Across the continent, people were lining up by the millions on one side or the other of a new binary system, being told they were «positive» or «negative» as if they had turned overnight into protons and electrons and everyone spoke of subatomic physics, rather than of who was going to live and who was going to be shunned, endure terrible suffering, and die.

But rather than fire up the mod as soon as I returned to Electron Dance HQ, I elected to wait for the remake.

The houses aren't connected directly to each other, of course, but rather to TransActive grid, a local microgrid, so the sale was a transaction of renewable energy «attributes» only, rather than a transfer of electrons.

«It's daunting to think through how a company — whose valuation and competencies, infrastructure, inherent skills, history is all based on large scale projects with long time horizons and massive capital investments — can shift to a new reality that's going to be decentralized, based on more modest capital investments and shorter time horizons, and is about electrons rather than molecules.»