ITT's electron side includes low-tech switches and high-tech radar-jamming systems and night vision gear for the military.
In each cell hydrogen passes through a platinum catalyst, which strips hydrogen's one electron away from its one proton.
The US Navy's free-electron laser has broken a few records already, but it's just plowed through another fairly big one -- one that its creators say could put it on the fast track to actually being used to shoot down missiles.
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Electrons are subatomic spinning tops: Spin up and spin down are the electron's version of clockwise and counterclockwise.
With that exception, all electric charges were expected to be exact multiples of an electron's negative one, or its positive equivalent.
Andrew Kent, a physicist at New York University, spends most days running electricity through a magnet smaller in diameter than a single cell, trying to determine the lowest current at which an electron's spin changes orientation.
The experiment, conducted by a team from the Hamamatsu University of Medicine, found that the larvae of fruit flies hit with this electron rush were able to withstand an electron microscope's hostile vacuum unharmed and even grew to be healthy adults.
Dr Brenner's method used what is known as a transmission electron microscope.
But by using scanning electron microscopes and computers, GreatPoint's experts were able to rapidly assess the effectiveness of different catalysts and fine-tune the formula.
Dr Zhou's method, by contrast, employs a process called electron-field emission.
Super high resolution and clarity: IGZO's transistors are much smaller than traditional LCDs thanks to significantly higher electron mobility.
The detector allows the machine's operators to work out which particles have been created by the electron-positron collisions, and to follow their patterns of decay.
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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Turin's theory: that nasal receptors were tiny spectroscopes, measuring vibration by measuring electron current.
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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His main characters include G, the strength of gravity, h, Planck's constant, which governs the quantum nature of reality at small scales, e, the charge of the electron, and c, the speed of light itself.
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