Earlier this year a team at Lund University in Sweden used a laser with pulses measured in attoseconds (billion billionths of a second) to record an electron in motion.
The AMS paper will report the positron-electron ratio in the mass range of 0.5 to 350 Gigaelectronvolts.
The advance provides evidence to support a controversial idea, called multiple-exciton generation (MEG), which theorizes that it is possible for an electron that has absorbed light energy, called an exciton, to transfer that energy to more than one electron, resulting in more electricity from the same amount of absorbed light.
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Small changes to the voltage of the grid control large changes in the electron current flowing to the collector plate.
So what you see in an electron microscope, which requires a vacuum, is substantially different from what is naturally there.
Who is supposed to diagnose and cure the asymmetry problems (in space, time and energy bin distribution) in radiation drive and in hot electron generation and preheat?
Dr Brenner and his team embedded their worms in blocks of plastic, sliced the blocks thinly and then stained each slice so its features would show up in an electron microscope.
In addition, since a single electron travelling through the device emits light not once (as in most other lasers), but many times, quantum cascade lasers are powerful: Dr Capasso's group has recently shown that they beat conventional semiconductor lasers by a factor of 20.
The researchers were able to capture images of frameshifting in action using electron microscopy.
Electron-neutrinos are created in the thermonuclear reactions at the solar core.
In particular, every electron has its own magnetic field aligned with the axis of its spin.
Toshiba will present three papers on the new STT-MRAM and its technologies on December 11 and 12 at IEDM, the International Electron Device Meeting held by IEEE in San Francisco from December 10.
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It was the first machine to smash particles together with energies in excess of 1 trillion electron-volts or 1 TeV, whence its name.
The theory is that when a muon encounters a gas molecule, it can knock off an electron, leaving a positively charged ion in its wake.
Grandis makes a non-NAND flash solid state storage technology called spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) that stores information via the direction of magnetization in a spin-polarized electron current.
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"What I was doing was taking these bones and seeing whether in fact I could see electron spin resonance spectra getting progressively smaller and ending up with carbon, " said Dr Skinner.
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Both indicate that, if what they have seen really are Higgses, then the boson has a mass of about 125 giga-electron-volts (GeV), in the esoteric units which are used to measure how heavy subatomic particles are.
In diamonds, the six-electron atoms share a single electron with each of the four atoms that abut them, forging the strongest bond known to chemists and making diamonds among the hardest minerals.
But even if that succeeds, Dr Likharev does not think that the single-electron transistor could ever survive the more demanding environment in a processor.
One explanation for the solar-neutrino deficit (only a third of the predicted number have been detected) is that electron-neutrinos produced by nuclear-fusion reactions in the sun's core mutate into the other two types, which are harder to detect.
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Since the charge comes in small multiples of the charge on an electron, it is easy to account for.
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The physicist Robert Millikan (who showed minor confirmation bias in his own work on the charge of the electron by omitting outlying observations that did not fit his hypothesis) devoted more than 10 years to trying to disprove Einstein's theory that light consists of particles (photons).
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer can observe electron and positrons that emerge from possible dark matter "annihilations" in the Milky Way.
In particular, the neutrinos should should have been radiating electron-positron pairs.
In particular, there is speculation this morning that Tokyo Electron may have been a losing bidder for Varian, and that the company may respond with an offer for Novellus.
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And in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters, a group led by Haroun Ahmed at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in Britain reports another vital step, a single-electron transistor that, for the first time, amplifies its input signal (though only by a factor of 3.7, several hundred times more weakly than a conventional transistor does).
They are known to exist in three types related to three different charged particles - the electron and its lesser-known relatives, the muon and the tau.
The magic, it turns out, is in that subatomic spray, as the group treated with an electron shower benefited from a polymerizing effect or, more plainly, a bonding of molecules just above the skin's surface that yielded a tough, protective nano-layer measuring between 50- to 100-billionths of a meter thick.
The Stanford team's work was featured recently as an invited paper at the prestigious International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) as well as a "keynote paper" in the highly regarded IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
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And that resistance is what we, in our big everyday world, think of as the mass of the electron.
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