Physicists have directly observed the electronic building blocks responsible for flat bands in quantum materials, confirming ...

An atomic force microscope can be used as a single-electron current meter, according to new experiments by researchers at IBM. The technique, which measures the energy levels of single molecules on ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2024.230184 , discusses tailoring electron vortex beams with customizable intensity patterns by electron diffraction holography. In ...

Electron microscopy researchers have developed a unique way to build 3-D structures with finely controlled shapes as small as one to two billionths of a meter. The study demonstrates how scanning ...

This artist's rendition illustrates the electron energy levels in graphene as revealed by a unique NIST instrument. Because of graphene’s properties, an electron in any given energy level (the wide, ...

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” – Niels Bohr. This seemingly paradoxical statement, which by any measure would appear to provide evidence against the ...

Free electrons moving through space are fundamental and indivisible: they are not built up of smaller particles, in contrast with protons and neutrons. However, within materials, interactions among ...

Electrons, the stuff of chemical bonds, zip around at an unimaginably fast time-scale—on the order of attoseconds (10 –18 seconds). The ability to generate and control attosecond pulses of laser light ...